Get out your paint, markers, crayons and glitter! It’s time for the 2nd Annual Diabetes Art Day! Hosted on Sept. 1st, Diabetes Art Day is the brainchild of Lee Ann Thill, a diabetes blogger and certified art therapist who shared the impact of art and diabetes here at the ‘Mine last summer.
Lee Ann launched Diabetes Art Day last year as an online initiative for the Diabetes Online Community to “tell a story about life…
It’s soooo bad trying to be good about eating, right? Why does the good-for-you stuff never satisfy?
(as illustrated by T1 artist Haidee Merritt)
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Just a friendly reminder that we’re looking to begin featuring a variety of artists here in the Sunday Funnies section. If you’re artistic, have a sense of humor, and know diabetes like the back of your hand (or fingertips?), we’d love to hear from you.…
Two more tough topics await in this week’s edition of our “curiously strong” diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine — hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
Take a gander, and don’t forget to send us YOUR queries related to life with diabetes. Not much is off-limits here! (except of course specific medical instructions for your own care; that’s what doctors are for)
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We had the opportunity to meet a lot of small business people at this year’s AADE conference, in addition to those from the mega-huge Pharma companies. One company we spotted was GlucoBrands, a Florida-based outfit that’s been making the conference rounds this summer with its GlucoPouch, a new fruity glucose gel. I had a chance to try my sample on the plane back from Vegas when I hit 63 mg/dl right after take-off. Although I…
Jeffrey Brewer is the newest president of the JDRF — following several rapid turn-overs over the past five years since the departure of Peter Van Etten. This change in leadership coincides with a dramatic shift in JDRF’s policies on the programs and research it funds, focusing not only on the cure, but also on new technologies, like the Artificial Pancreas, and research on treating complications.
Jeffrey first announced this change in a groundbreaking interview with diaTribe…