diabetes and social media

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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Lilly (Finally) Engages the Diabetes Patient Community

By MikeH on May 24, 2012

When I heard that Lilly Diabetes was holding its first-ever Diabetes Blogger Summit, my initial thought was: “It’s about flippin’ time.”
I’m an active patient advocate and blogger who’s lived in Indianapolis for close to a decade and worked for about six years in downtown Indy, where Lilly is based, but haven’t once been able to get a clear read on what the company is doing to engage the diabetes patient community, either online or…

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Spotlight on a T1 Marathon Runner with Great Diabetes Karma

By AllisonN on December 16, 2011

We love to spotlight our wonderful readers here at the ‘Mine, especially because we have some really fabulous, accomplished people in our community. For example, Caroline Sheehan, a type 1 PWD for 8 years, who recently won our giveaway of the book Your Medical Mind. Not only is Caroline a good friend of mine, but she’s an accomplished Laughter Yoga instructor (featured for that last Fall) and has run two marathons — and she’s only 25 years old!…

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