By
MikeH on
October 2, 2012
Managing type 2 diabetes can be just as hard as managing type 1. Wouldn’t it be cool if someone were encouraging patients to set a motivational D-management goal for the week, and they’d donate $5 to an influential diabetes organization or charity in the process?
Well, that’s exactly what the ‘Mine’s own parent company Alliance Health Networks is doing right now at the huge DiabeticConnect community site. Alliance has been working with Edelman PR to develop a type 2 diabetes…
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By
AmyT on
September 26, 2012
This past Sunday through Tuesday, the legendary Joslin Diabetes Center hosted its first-ever “Diabetes + Innovation” conference at the Crystal City Hyatt hotel in Arlington, VA. (They tell us this DC location was more convenient for the many government and large healthcare orgs participating than Joslin’s home base in Boston.)
As you might imagine, no one could have been more excited than I about the world’s leading diabetes clinic organizing a high-level conference on INNOVATION…
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By
AmyT on
September 25, 2012
I hate to be Debbie Downer here, but despite our community’s best efforts, it seems doubtful that Google will ever consent to run a diabetes-related Doodle on World Diabetes Day, Nov. 14.
WTF? You may ask… But diabetes affects millions of Americans! By some estimates, diabetes will hit HALF OF AMERICA by 2020 and is costing the country more than $174 billion per year!!
How could Google possibly ignore such a pressing and widespread topic?!…
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By
MikeH on
August 20, 2012
Guess what? There’s a lot happening in the Diabetes Online Community!
No surprise, right?
But we’re proud to offer some tidbits on the details of successes in our community. Bravo, Friends!
→ First, the Diabetes Hands Foundation has opened up a call for grant proposals for this year’s Big Blue Test! Details can be found here. In short, there are five $10,000 grants that will be given out to U.S.-based non-profits based on certain criteria,…
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By
MikeH on
August 1, 2012
Our Diabetes Community is getting a bolus designed to strengthen our advocacy, education and support for people with diabetes across the United States.
Today, the Diabetes Hands Foundation (DHF) announced the nine winners of its inaugural Seeds Grant Program, a project funding initiative that we introduced you to back in March as a means to foster brilliant ideas in the community and strengthen projects already underway to improve the lives of people with diabetes (PWDs).
Nine…
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