Buying a dozen roses is a traditional way many people say “I love you” for Valentine’s Day. But what if that token of affection also meant saving the life of a child with diabetes?
For the first time this year, it does! All you have to do is be a part of a new grassroots effort called Spare a Rose, Save a Child.
A small group of our friends in the Diabetes Online Community (DOC)…
Her name was Marjorie. She was a 29-year-old from East Africa’s Uganda. And after living with type 1 diabetes from the age of three, she died last year as a result of diabetes-related kidney disease.
Now, in honor of Marjorie, a New York endocrinologist who’s living with type 1 himself is using her story as the backbone for a new non-profit aimed at helping people in developing countries get more resources and education about living…
What causes 63% of all deaths in the world? If you guessed AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria, you’d be wrong. It’s actually non-communicable diseases, with the top four being cancer, diabetes, heart disease and lung disease. It costs governments billions of dollars in both healthcare costs and loss in worker productivity, and that’s just one of the many reasons why a delegation of heads of state, ministers of Foreign Affairs and Health, and representatives from NGOs…
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