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Category: Diabetes Advocacy
It wasn’t easy, but after many email exchanges, document compilations, and meetings, the UMass Amherst chapter of the College Diabetes Network was officially established. I was elated!
Stop telling me that it's just a joke and I'm overreacting. You didn't mean my illness. You meant the fat guy's illness. That's like telling a family fighting cancer that "It was a joke about cervical cancer, not childhood cancer."
Earlier this week, President Obama playfully skewered his Republican opponents calling them "cray" for dismissing the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. He then joked: "If you go to 100 doctors, and 99 of them tell you you have diabetes, you wouldn't say, 'Ah, that's a conspiracy. All 99 doctors got together with Obama to keep me from having bacon and donuts.'"
Jill Weissberg-Benchell, a psychologist and CDE in Chicago is inviting people with T1D and their loved ones (partners, spouses, parents) to participate…
I don’t feel better or worse about having diabetes because, collectively, we’re making a lot of noise this month, and I don’t know if we’re getting through to anyone who doesn’t already know and care about diabetes. But the more I think about it, the more I begin to understand what these awareness months are really about.
The organisation T1International is calling for insulin and other vital diabetes supplies? ?to be made available for everyone with diabetes as part of their World Diabetes Day campaign.
The #insulin4all? campaign is led by T1International? and ?a charity partnership group called? ?The Access Alliance?.
Philip J. Shaw of the JDCA argues that their analysis of JDRF funding shows that not only has the amount of money being spent on cure research declined, but that the chunk of money spent on research is a shrinking part of the JDRF’s overall budget.
Both type 1 and type 2 are on the rise: since 1985 the number of people with diabetes worldwide has increased ten-fold, from 35 million to 371 million; and it’s projected to double again over the next two decades.
The sixth annual Diabetes Blog Week ended on Sunday, with enough startling, illuminating, and hilarious posts to flip your diabetic brains inside out.
Diabetes Blog Week, brainchild of diabetes advocate and Bittersweet Diabetes blogger Karen Graffeo, happens annually in May. Each year, seven themes (one for each day of the week, natch) are chosen by Karen to inspire, unite, and criss-cross the paths of disparate D-bloggers across the globe.