With Mother’s Day this Sunday (hope you didn’t forget!), we wanted to honor the many, many Superhero D-Moms out there, by highlighting how they have dealt with the transition from “regular mom-hood” to being a parental pancreas.
It’s tough to single out one in particular… But we’re excited to have found a mommy blogger who’s caring for not just one little girl with type 1 diabetes, but two.
You may recognize Heather Brand of Grand…
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Did you know the month of May is National Stroke Awareness Month? On that topic, we were fascinated to hear how one man in Colorado is advocating to help raise awareness about the increased risk of stroke that people with diabetes (PWDs) face.
A stroke victim himself who has many ties to diabetes, he is using his own experience to make a difference through a new fundraising campaign for an upcoming Tour de Cure ride…
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April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and what better time to bring you a new resource directly from the Diabetes Online Community aimed at raising awareness about diabetes and drinking?
Appropriately, it’s named Drinking with Diabetes.
You may remember it as one of the concepts that won backing from the Diabetes Hands Foundation Seeds Grant Program last summer. Created by fellow D-Advocate Bennet Dunlap, who’s dad to four great kids (the youngest two, Connor and Delaney,…
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AmyT on
December 11, 2012
Ever look at a diabetes product and wonder what the heck the developers were THINKING? People have to live with this stuff, after all! It’s even more interesting when they occasionally get it right…
Kim Blickenstaff, CEO of Tandem Diabetes Care, was unable to attend our DiabetesMine Innovation Summit event this year, but reached out to me to offer an inside view of how Tandem “got its groove on” to create the t:slim, the first-ever…
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