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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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AmyT on
November 1, 2012
It’s officially National Diabetes Awareness Month as of today, Nov. 1 — so get out your blue and start celebrating/advocating!! We’re excited to kick off the month by hosting Best of the ‘Betes Blogs awards for the previous month, October. We were wowed to receive nearly 40 nominations!
But before we get to the awards, we wanted to mention a couple of serious items important to all members of our Diabetes Online Community:
We lost…
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AmyT on
October 31, 2012
Happy Halloween, Everyone!
Today, we’re honored to be able to introduce you to a new guest cartoonist who will be drawing for us here at the ‘Mine. (Yes, there’s a Halloween tie-in; we’re getting to that.)
Jeannette Golubovic is a fellow PWD in Texas living with type 1.5 (or Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults, aka LADA). She works as an immigration attorney and blogs at EverythingImmigration, where she shares specialty legal news with clients from all…
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MikeH on
October 30, 2012
The topic for this month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) blog carnival is a great one! It prompts us to directly address our healthcare providers (HCP) and certified diabetes educators (CDEs), telling them what we’d like THEM to learn from the Diabetes Online Community.
That’s a very important question, as we’re constantly thinking about how much we want our docs and educators to actually listen to us patients individually, rather than treating us all like…
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AmyT on
October 26, 2012
We are proud to be hosting the monthly Best of the ‘Betes Blogs (BBB) for the month of October!
On Thursday, Nov. 1, we will be featuring the nominated posts in a variety of categories, showcasing what our Diabetes Online Community thinks were some of the best this month.
But we need your help!
Nominations will remain open through the end of day Monday, Oct. 29 to make sure we can include as many of…
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