Filmmakers Lisa Hepner and her husband, Guy Mossman, are on a mission to bring the story of diabetes and the quest to find a cure to the silver screen. For Lisa, it’s not just professional — it’s personal. Lisa was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 20 years ago while in college and has worked for the past 15 years producing documentaries for the likes of Discovery Channel, TLC, MTV and PBS. Now she wants to…
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Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the JDRF Capitol Chapter’s first annual Research Summit in Bethesda, MD. The summit had a very impressive line-up, including Dan Hurley, author of the book Diabetes Rising, and Dr. Aaron Kowalski, JDRF’s Vice President of Treatment Therapies.
I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Edward Damiano, a researcher at Boston University who’s currently steeped in multi-day human trials for the control algorithm on the artificial…
Dan Hurley, award-winning journalist and author of the new book Diabetes Rising is turning out to have some controversial views. He certainly thinks about Type 1 diabetes — which he’s lived with himself for 34 years — in different terms than I do; he’s very focused on causes and prevention, while I’m just trying to work out how to live with this thing. When I approached Dan to write a piece here at the ‘Mine…
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Today, another example of the more things change, the more they stay the same:
In his new book Diabetes Rising, journalist Dan Hurley reports about skyrocketing numbers of children being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in a wealthy Boston suburb. Parents there are desperate for answers as to why this is happening, yet “the lack of a national or even statewide diabetes registry complicates efforts… we know little about what causes Type 1 diabetes.”
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I asked for some input on what a new diabetes web site could offer, and I got it – Thank You! Ahem… ask a silly question, get a silly answer, right? I mean it should have been obvious that the No. 1 thing that fits under the heading “StupidDiabetes.com” is humor!
The general consensus seems to be, in Kurt’s words, “Too much of this damn disease is about avoiding dying. If we can lighten up…