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Changes for Jeff Hitchcock and Children with Diabetes

Jeff Hitchcock and his website, Children with Diabetes, have gone through some significant changes recently. These changes reflect how growth and success brings its own set of challenges, and also reflect some larger changes taking place in how diabetes functions as a business.

How the New York Times Could – And Should – Use Engaged Patients to Revolutionize Medical Reporting

The New York Times is one of the most respected and trusted papers in the country. It has the ability to affect policy and guide public conversation – and, in the case of healthcare issues, to influence both treatment decisions by doctors, and coverage decisions by private and public insurers. As a result, the Times has a moral responsibility to get every detail right. And if it doesn’t get things right, it needs to correct its mistakes.

The Cost of Staying Alive with Diabetes: A Response to the New York Times

Like many other people with diabetes, I had a complicated reaction to the recent story in the New York Times, “Even Small Medical Advances Can Mean Big Jumps in Bills,” by Elisabeth Rosenthal about the high costs of diabetes care in the United States. At first, I was excited: Type 1 diabetes above the fold?

Wake Up! It’s the ADA’s Diabetes Alert Day 2014

March 25th is the 26th Annual American Diabetes Association Alert Day, a one-day “wake-up call” asking the American public to take the Diabetes Risk Test to find out if they are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

Spare a Rose, Save a Child

A big shout out to Melissa Lee, who blogs at SweetlyVoiced, for writing this post about Life for a Child's Spare a Rose, Save a Child campaign. And thanks, too, for sharing it with us.

JDRF’s TypeOneNation: Now More User-Friendly

TypeOneNation’s goal is to support, engage and educate people living with type one diabetes, as well as their families and friends. This online community is a place to get answers to questions, join the conversation and connect with others not only in the United States, but around the world.

Introducing The Diabetes Media Foundation

We’re very excited to announce that we recently incorporated ASweetLife and related projects under a new nonprofit media organization, Diabetes Media Foundation (DMF), devoted to disseminating information about, and generating community around, living a healthy life with diabetes. DMF helps people living with or affected by diabetes find information, community, and support from one another, and to share their stories.

Walk Away From Diabetes Campaign

he online Master of Public Health program, MPH@GW, would like to invite you to participate in its new campaign to Walk Away from Diabetes that aims to raise awareness for type 2 diabetes prevention.

Diabetes Supplies Urgently Needed for Philippines

It’s difficult to think about diabetes when people are also trying to survive without access to food, water and shelter, but in the days ahead after much needed essential aid is deployed and ground crews are able to reach survivors, managing acute and chronic illness will become a priority.

Sticking It to Diabetes

I have a hard time subscribing to the “eat cupcakes to stick it to diabetes” mentality. Sticking it to diabetes by way of consuming mass amounts of excessively-sweet carbohydrates doesn’t make me feel like I’m sticking it to diabetes. Instead, I feel like I’m sticking it to myself, creating a tough-to-manage situation.