Here we are on our final Friday in the month of January, and we find ourselves wrapping up our Life with Diabetes (LWD video series that’s been a regular find here for the past four months.
In this week’s final snippet, we visit with a teenager with diabetes struggling to keep her weight down and manage her blood sugar levels, all the while making it through college courses and working a job too, and, you…
Nearing the end of our regular Friday “life with diabetes” video series from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, we bring you a clip that dives into a very personal issue for those who’ve grown up with diabetes and lived with it throughout their childhood and teen years.
The topic: finding the ongoing motivation necessary to keep doing what we’re supposed to, whether it’s checking our blood sugars or counting carbs or even taking insulin. In this clip,…
Welcome back to our Friday “life with diabetes” video short series from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the documentary film Sugar Babies. This week’s snippet shows a family with a little girl diagnosed with type 1 about a year ago.
It’s a realistic view of what it’s like having a preschooler who needs an insulin pump. From the D-Mom’s perspective on losing control and worrying about her daughter’s health for a few hours during the school day…
We were familiar with the company ViaCyte through its former identity as NovoCell, when we reported that they’d managed to successfully control diabetes in mice using embryonic stem cells back in 2008.
Last year, they changed their name, but their two-part mission remained the same: first, to create fully functioning beta cells (the specific kind of islet cells that make insulin and amylin) from embryonic stem cells, and then to find a way to combat…
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…