After three decades with type 1 diabetes, with fifteen years of pumping tens of thousands of blood sugar checks, I’ve ce…
Diabetes Advocacy
Turkey Bidding For JDRF
Making life better for people with diabetes may just be for the birds. Bear with us here: A Wisconsin family with a hist…
Smart Answers to Annoying Diabetes Questions
My family and I get a lot of questions from the rest of the world about living with diabetes. Sometimes the questions ar…
Do You Ever Feel Ashamed About Having Diabetes?
There’s stigma everywhere when it comes to diabetes, and we as a community are constantly on notice to correct misconcep…
Behind the Scenes with JDRF: How The Special Diabetes Program Won Renewal
It was 3 a.m. and the JDRF advocacy staff was wide awake and in the Washington DC office, working the phones, following …
Special Diabetes Program in Danger of Losing Government Funding
A government funded research program that has pumped more than $2.5 billion into diabetes research over the past 20 year…
Exporting America’s Diet: A Peek Into South Asia’s Growing Diabetes Problem
A recent NY Times article discussed the ‘volcano of diabetes’ upon which India is sitting. The cause? A population predi…
We Couldn’t Do It Without You
Dear Readers,
The new year is almost upon us, and we’re preparing for a 2018 full of in-depth reporting and strong…
Living with Diabetes in South Africa
I just celebrated a decade of living Type 1 diabetes (sadly, there was no cake). I was diagnosed just after I moved to C…
JDRF Initiative Aims to Speed Development of ‘Open Source’ Artificial Pancreas Systems
In October, JDRF took the organization’s first step into the burgeoning world of DIY diabetes technology when it announc…