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Research on a Placard: Fascinating ADA Poster News

By AmyT on July 1, 2010

The research poster is a clever invention.  It basically allows researchers to pack all the details of a study they’ve conducted — abstract, methodology, graphs and charts, overview of results — on a 30″ x 40″ piece of cardboard to show it off at scientific events, so that colleagues can walk by and absorb their work in 10 minutes or less. Over 1,600 posters like this were presented this year at the American Diabetes Association…

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What’s Really Scary on Halloween

By AmyT on October 31, 2008

I love dressing up in costumes, and the whole aura of Halloween festivities.  But I don’t need to remind you fellow PWDs why this holiday is really scary: it’s the #$%@ high-fructose-corn-syrup-laden store-bought candies, that’s what. They’re everywhere at this time of year, just begging to be eaten.
As author and advocate Laura Plunkett (mother of a Type 1 child) writes: “I drift through the supermarket aisles getting angry. Did they make up this holiday…

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