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Category: Diabetes Advocacy
Actor Chris Noth and Novo Nordisk have teamed up in a national education program, Ask.Screen.Know., to highlight the need for early diabetes screening and detection in light of the continuing escalation of diabetes prevalence. As an ambassador for the program, the award-winning actor currently appearing on CBS' show "The Good Wife" and known for his roles as Detective Mike Logan on "Law and Order" and...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will meet with 150 children and teens with type 1 diabetes during the 2011 Children’s Congress which takes place June 20-22 in Washington D.C. Justice Sotomayor, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of eight, will share her experiences of type 1 diabetes as she's pursued her professional dreams. Organized by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the “Role Models with Type 1 Diabetes”...
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) today launched the first ever Charter setting out the fundamental rights of more than 300 million people living with diabetes...
What is next for Medtronic? What holds back new products, and what is being done to keep development moving forward?
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...
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...
The NYC Health Department wants people to give up sugary drinks, but people won't - and I'll tell you why...
Novo Nordisk launched Cornerstones4Care™, a comprehensive, highly customizable online support program for people living with diabetes.
The program aims to be a one-stop source to learn about diabetes and innovative Novo Nordisk treatment options and delivery device systems. People can also receive recipes, look up food nutritional values, connect with others...
The Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region is facing one of the greatest healthcare challenges of our time: the diabetes pandemic. It is estimated that 26.6 million people in the region have diabetes and this number is set to double to 51.7 million by 2030.
To help find solutions to this challenge, Novo Nordisk is sponsoring a Diabetes Leadership Forum on 12-13 December in Dubai. At the Forum, a group of over 600 regional...