JDRF has announced the launch of a new Type 1 Diabetes Health Insurance Guide to help people living with T1D choose an i…
Diabetes Advocacy
Should Diabetes Organizations Celebrate with Sugary Foods?
November 14 was World Diabetes Day, and organizations around the world brought attention to the disease in various ways.…
Day One of Life with Diabetes: Memories from Diagnosis Day
Since September of 1986, when I was seven, I have been living with type 1 diabetes. Day one of diabetes is mostly a blu…
Don’t Waste Your Passion on Jimmy Kimmel’s Diabetes Joke
I’m fairly sure most of you reading this right now have already heard about the Jimmy Kimmel drama (over nothing). Quite…
The Bitter Irony of Jimmy Kimmel’s Diabetes Joke
A few days ago, a viral Instagram post began appearing all over my social media threads. It was the same post everywhere…
Dear President Trump: You. Diabetes Comments. Not good.
To: President Donald Trump
From: “D-Mom” Moira, on behalf of all who live with diabetes
Re: “Her health. No good. Diabet…
Destigmatizing Diabetes: New Language Recommendations for Diabetes Care
Stigma is a strange and unspoken side effect of living with diabetes. People make generalizations about people with dia…
The Affordable Insulin Project Creates Guides to Help People with Diabetes and Their Employers
Christel Marchand Aprigliano is not the kind of diabetes advocate who waits for instructions. When she saw the need for …
Grandma with Type 1 Diabetes Makes JDRF Rides Delicious
Bunny Kasper, a Connecticut woman who has had Type 1 diabetes for many years and who has two grandsons with the disease,…
Protesters at Eli Lilly’s Headquarters Demand Transparency and Lower Insulin Prices
This past Saturday, people living with diabetes and health advocates gathered outside the Indianapolis headquarters of p…