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Sanofi-aventis and Columbia University to Collaborate on Diabetes Research

Sanofi-aventis and Columbia University Medical Center announced a three-year research collaboration for the development of innovative diabetes medicines. This research collaboration, with the laboratory of Dr. Gerard Karsenty, will investigate the role of the osteoblast-secreted peptide, osteocalcin, in diabetes management...

Novo Nordisk Campaign Urges Diabetes Patients to Use Prefilled Insulin Pens

Novo Nordisk is partnering with 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series driver Charlie Kimball to launch the educational program, Drive the Switch, encouraging diabetes patients who use insulin and caregivers to pledge to talk to their healthcare professional about options for insulin delivery, like the prefilled insulin pen device...

Levemir Better for Treating Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes Than Human Basal Insulin

New clinical trial data just published in Pediatric Diabetes shows that Levemir (insulin detemir), Novo Nordisk’s basal insulin analogue, is an equally efficacious treatment option for two to five year-old children with type 1 diabetes, compared with human basal insulin, but is associated with lower hypoglycemic risk. Children with type 1 diabetes who are aged under six years...

Interview: Bernard Farrell, DiabetesMine 2011 Design Challenge Judge

In July of 2006, I put up my first blog post. Even in the early days I was focusing on diabetes technology...

Ten States to Bear Brunt of Diabetes Burden

A new study conducted by the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) identified California, Texas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Michigan as “diabetes hot spots,” where the burden of diabetes will be greatest in the next 15 years...

Lack of Diabetes Supplies in Japan: An Exclusive Report from Noriko Kitano

The number of diabetics in Japan is estimated at over eight million, with millions more suffering from impaired glucose tolerance, or prediabetes. The Japan Diabetes Society says that after last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami in north-east Japan, there are 400-500 survivors with type 1 diabetes in the stricken area...

JDRF Announces Children’s Congress 2011

Approximately 150 children and teenagers throughout the U.S., and several from around the world have been selected to travel to Washington, D.C. this summer to represent their state and country and remind Congress and the Administration of the critical need to find better treatments...

Coming Home, An Excerpt From the Novel “Some Kind of Normal”

For three days we calculated the carbs in Ashley’s food. We figured the insulin needed. We learned how to put new lancets in the insulin pen...

Raising Funds for Diabetes Research: Do You Have Something to Donate?

Help ASweetLife.org raise funds for diabetes research! We're collecting items and services to auction in Brenda Novak's upcoming Seventh Annual Online Auction to Benefit Diabetes Research. Brenda, mother of five and best-selling author, noticed her youngest son Thad was showing symptoms of diabetes when he was only five-years-old. Soon thereafter he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Learning how to give her son the best possible care wasn’t enough for Brenda, and so she decided to fight diabetes by...

Living with Diabetes: An Interview with Miss America Nicole Johnson

When I got diabetes I was depressed. I was even at one point thinking about ending my life. The pain was too much to handle...