Cheating Destiny

Meet SUGAR BABIES: A Diabetes Film with Huge Educational Dreams

By AmyT on December 14, 2011

Why doesn’t the general public seem to care much about the diabetes epidemic? And why don’t most people seem to have a clue about the difference between type 1 and type 2? This lack of recognition is one of our biggest peeves, right?
Well, renown filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, mother of a now-14-year-old with type 1 diabetes, is on a mission to change all that. She’s hard at work on a full-length documentary film that aims…

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Losing Faith in a Cure

By AllisonN on February 3, 2011

Editor’s Note: Allison Blass, my new assistant editor, was moved by what she heard and saw at the JDRF Research Summit last weekend and what she read thereafter.  But maybe not in the way you’d think…

I remember when I stopped believing that I would see a cure for diabetes.
It was a spring afternoon when I was in college. I was sitting on the back deck of this coffee shop I frequented. It was a…

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