Bayer Diabetes Care and Nick Jonas awarded the three grand prize winners of Bayer’s “Express Your Simple Win Creativity Contest.” The contest entrants were all children living with type 1 diabetes.  According to EmaxHealth each of the 160 participants sent in a 15-30 second video that expressed their “Simple Win” – small,...

Jay Cutler said he’ll look into wearing an insulin pump during the offseason to manage his type 1 diabetes. According to the Chicago Sun-Times Cutler tried outfitting himself with one in Denver a short time after being diagnosed but had difficulty keeping it on. “I tried it out probably a month after I was diagnosed, and we...

Jay Cutler has had a bad run so far this season.  He is 0-3 in nationally televised night games, throwing 11 of his NFL-high 17 interceptions. There has been speculation that this may be sight related but Ron Turner, the Bears offensive coordinator, doesn’t think this is the case. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Turner commented...

Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler visited the University of Chicago’s Kovler Diabetes Center on World Diabetes Day, Chicago Press Release reported. Cutler met with teenage diabetics to discuss his experience with diabetes. The quarterback recently recorded six videos that detail his experience with diabetes, its impact on his life...

Pop star Nick Jonas has announced a new partnership with Bayer Diabetes Care which will take his diabetes advocacy to the United Kingdom. Jonas has been making waves this year with high profile trips to Washington D.C. to raise diabetes awareness. The new partnership aims to provide young people and their families with the support they...

ESPN reports that Chicago Bears quarterback, Jay Cutler, has teamed up with Eli Lilly and Company and created a series of videos to help educate people about diabetes.  In the videos Cutler discusses a period in 2007, while playing for the Denver Broncos, that he suffered constant fatigue and severe weight loss.  He was diagnosed with...