By
MikeH on
April 29, 2013
April is National Foot Health Awareness Month — yep, the feet have a month, too! — so we’re returning to our 411 on Complications series with a foot-featured post for y’all. But not a typical “neuropathy is bad” post with toe-curling scary scientific talk. No, we’ve done something along those lines about diabetic neuropathy before.
This time, we wanted to explore the emotional side of living with diabetic foot problems, and why so few PWDs…
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By
AmyT on
October 26, 2010
Partnerships between multiple universities or institutions are not so uncommon in research, but when’s the last time you heard of an entire state coming together to cure a disease? Earlier this month, the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic, together forming the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics, announced a formal 10-year-long partnership to cure diabetes which they’ve named, “Decade of Discovery: A Minnesota Partnership to Defeat Diabetes.”
The goal is to raise…
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By
AmyT on
August 19, 2010
From the “Weird and Wonderful” File:
Another booth I happened upon last month while visiting the Children with Diabetes conference in Orlando definitely stopped me in my tracks: dental stem cells for diabetes?! Could someone be seriously running a business on this concept when the science is far from mature?
Turns out the Store-A-Tooth™ booth was run by a Provia Laboratories, a Lexington, MA-based outfit offering a new service for preserving the stem cells found…
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