April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and what better time to bring you a new resource directly from the Diabetes Online Community aimed at raising awareness about diabetes and drinking?
Appropriately, it’s named Drinking with Diabetes.
You may remember it as one of the concepts that won backing from the Diabetes Hands Foundation Seeds Grant Program last summer. Created by fellow D-Advocate Bennet Dunlap, who’s dad to four great kids (the youngest two, Connor and Delaney,…
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By
AmyT on
January 25, 2013
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…
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By
MikeH on
October 23, 2012
Are you a person with diabetes who has a BFF also living with diabetes?
(BFF = “Best friends forever,” for those who didn’t grow up with texting vernacular.)
And do the two of you want to share blood sugars, and other highs and lows of living with diabetes?
Well, now there’s an app for that. It’s called “Diabesties,” as in best friends with diabetes, and it’s a new creation from the College Diabetes Network (CDN),…
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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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As if entering adulthood wasn’t tough enough, teens with diabetes face an extra challenge just about the time they’re graduating from high school and reaching adulthood: they’re forced to transition from close, intimate pediatric care settings to the hard, “get ‘em in, get ‘em out” world of adult healthcare, where so much depends on jobs, health insurance and self-motivation.
Historically pretty much ignored by the medical establishment, “emerging adults” with diabetes, ranging from 18 to…
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