I have been living with type 1 diabetes for 25 years now. The relentlessness of type 1, and the fact that I will probably live with this non-preventable…
Category: People (Celebrities)
Andrew Mika gazes down to examine his tailored white dress shirt. “See look at that—there’s a blood stain!”
These words, unexpected in the upscale…
Last spring CNN ran a story on one of its correspondents, Cristina Alesci, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as an adult. And a few days ago I came…
Despite attacks of snarling bigotry both on and off the baseball field, Jackie Robinson, the first African American player in the major leagues,…
Mary Tyler Moore, who lived with Type 1 diabetes, died today at the age of 80. She was a much loved actress, best known for her television roles in…
Caroline Carter never imagined she’d trade her basketball sneakers for stilettos, but in a few months this 18-year-old Miss New Hampshire will compete for the Miss America crown in Atlantic City. In the meantime, Carter talks about her type 1 diabetes diagnosis day, the people who inspire her, and her belief that diabetes should never be an excuse.
If one word sums up how rising country music artist and songwriter, Eric Paslay feels these days it’s “grateful.”
After 13…
Todd Hobbs, the chief medical officer for North America at Novo Nordisk, knows diabetes from all angles: as a patient; as an endocrinologist (for ten years he ran a clinical practice focused on patients of all ages with diabetes); as an executive at a pharmaceutical company working to develop new treatments (he’s worked at Novo Nordisk since 2004); and as a parent (one of his six sons was diagnosed with type 1 at age five)
Stacey Simms is an award-winning broadcaster and speaker. She is the host of the new podcast, Diabetes Connections, and has blogged since 2007 about her family’s experience with type 1 diabetes.
Karen Graffeo was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1979, at the age of 11. In 2008 Karen started her diabetes blog, Bitter-Sweet, and became immersed in the Diabetes Online Community. She also advocates offline and is involved with two JDRF chapters in her home state of Connecticut. Karen is hosting the sixth annual Diabetes Blog Week from May 11th – May 17th.