By
MikeH on
October 10, 2012
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, which is related to life with diabetes in more ways than many of us care to admit. Oftentimes, diabetes can take us to a dark place, where not only managing this illness but making it through life, day-to-day, can seem overwhelming.
This national advocacy initiative was initially established in 1990 by the U.S. Congress, with awareness and assistance tools organized by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. To…
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By
MikeH on
October 2, 2012
Managing type 2 diabetes can be just as hard as managing type 1. Wouldn’t it be cool if someone were encouraging patients to set a motivational D-management goal for the week, and they’d donate $5 to an influential diabetes organization or charity in the process?
Well, that’s exactly what the ‘Mine’s own parent company Alliance Health Networks is doing right now at the huge DiabeticConnect community site. Alliance has been working with Edelman PR to develop a type 2 diabetes…
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You might not know it by just glancing at the name “Children with Diabetes,” but the annual diabetes conference in Florida each year isn’t a kids-only atmosphere. At least, not anymore.
Nowadays, the Friends for Life conference is definitely a grown-up party and more adults are joining in on the fun!
Everything began in 1995, when an Ohio D-Dad named Jeff Hitchcock founded the online forum that has become the thriving CWD community. His daughter…
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By
AmyT on
October 19, 2011
For the next few days, the diabetes the online community is rallying around “LADA Awareness Week” to call attention to Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. This is obviously the type that turned my own life upside-down.
We know there’s some controversy about the specific definition of this type of diabetes (see my own definition post + comments), so we decided to query some leading experts from around the country for their thoughts on this nebulous…
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