With Father’s Day just a couple of days away (hint, hint!), we thought it would be cool to hear from a dad who’s involved with diabetes on many levels.
Pete Miselis is a D-dad who’s stepped up his advocacy into a professional role, working for a relatively new organization aiming to act as a watchdog for people making donations to various organizations pursuing a cure for type 1 — the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance (JDCA),…
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Ah, the pancreas. That organ behind the stomach that’s always been the target of angst and anger for us PWDs (people with diabetes). We bemoan why it went on permanent vacation and daydream about kick-starting it…
But all of our complaining might be for naught. Turns out there might be an even bigger, badder enemy of healthy blood sugars: the thymus!
… the who??
Let me tell you a little about this other gland:
The…
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In most areas of diabetes research, you don’t hear much until there’s a big breakthrough of some sort. And then it goes dark again.
That’s what happened several years ago on the then-hot topic of xenotransplantation, or the sourcing of islet cells for transplants. Some studies were launched using porcine cells and the press had a field day with headlines like “pig sushi diabetes trial.” Since then? Nada.
But recently, a New Zealand-based company called…
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By
AmyT on
November 12, 2012
Last week, a virtual who’s-who of about 500 researchers and scientists working on diabetes technologies gathered in Bethesda, MD, for the 12th annual meeting of the Diabetes Technology Society. More than 70 presenters gave talks, mostly introducing new research, over the course of three days.
Myself and DOC consultant/advocate Kelly Close both gave talks about the power of patient-led social media (!)
But the most exciting things this year, to my mind, appeared to be…
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