In West Virginia, a 16-year-old with type 1 recruited hundreds of walkers and raised a record amount of money for his local JDRF chapter because he wanted to give back to a worthy cause.
In New York, another teenager helped raise a record amount of money for his local JDRF walk.
We tend to think of teens as “hanging out” and wasting a lot of time, but these two kids exemplify how younger generations of…
Hola! Today is Diabetes Art Day, time again to tap into our best artsy skills to show the world what it’s really like to live with diabetes.
Did you forget?
Don’t worry: There’s still time to break out the colored pencils, crayons, scissors, paint and glue to get all creative! While you’re working on your own contribution, there’s plenty of D-Art popping up around the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) to offer a little inspiration should you…
The 2012 Big Blue Test campaign is open for business. That’s the huge international online “glucose test-in” organized by Manny Hernandez and his team at the Diabetes Hands Foundation. It emphasizes the importance of exercise with diabetes, and just as last year, if the campaign hits its goal of of 20,000 entries, the program sponsor (Roche Accu-Chek) will donate $100,000 to charitable D-organizations.
But this year, the group is expanding the scope of where that…
Today we’re proud to present an exclusive announcement here at the ‘Mine, of a new project spearheaded by our own Allison (Blass) Nimlos!
She’s kicking off November, the big month of D-awareness, by debuting her new line of diabetes-inspired handmade greeting cards!
Think of them of the Diabetes Community’s versions of Hallmark – by the name of none other than BLUE CUPCAKE CARDS!
So if you want to send some a special D-greeting, you can…
It’s officially National Diabetes Awareness Month as of today, Nov. 1 — so get out your blue and start celebrating/advocating!! We’re excited to kick off the month by hosting Best of the ‘Betes Blogs awards for the previous month, October. We were wowed to receive nearly 40 nominations!
But before we get to the awards, we wanted to mention a couple of serious items important to all members of our Diabetes Online Community:
We lost…