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When You Wish Upon A Pancreas… It’s DSMA March 2013

By MikeH on March 15, 2013

This month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) Blog Carnival asks our community to stretch our imaginations, in order to address one of their funnest queries yet:

Disney just gave you funding to create a character with diabetes. What type of character would you create? What would your character’s message be?

Let me start by saying that my wife and I are huge Disney fans. OK, that me rephrase that: Suzi’s love for all-things Disney has…

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Diabetes Advocacy Orgs: 2012 Milestones and Plans for 2013

By AmyT on January 1, 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!
At the close of last year, we asked the top diabetes advocacy organizations and communities to share what they felt they’d accomplished in 2011, and what kinds of plans / goals / strategies they had in mind for 2012?
It only makes sense that we return to them this year with the same question: did they meet their own expectations for 2012? And what do they envision for continuing to help…

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Pharma’s Take on World Diabetes Day 2012

By AmyT on November 14, 2012

Well, here we are — World Diabetes Day 2012!
Today, we mark the anniversary of the day the co-creator of insulin, Dr. Frederick Banting, was born back in 1891. While World Diabetes Day has been around for more than two decades, founded by the International Diabetes Federation, it really started getting noticed in 2007, when the United Nations issued a resolution and made it an official day of observance.
Five years later, the community has grown…

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