JOSLIN… Just the sound of it makes the heart of most PWDs (people with diabetes) skip a beat. It stands for the world’s leading center for diabetes research, clinical care and education based in Boston, MA. It also harkens back to its namesake founder, Dr. Elliott Joslin, regarded as the father of modern diabetes care.
Ever wonder who currently heads up this amazing place? And what exactly they are doing to bring this Century-old institution…
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Attending the American Diabetes Association’s Scientific Sessions as patients certainly affords us a unique window into progress on diabetes tools and devices, clinical research, and cure research. But what about the health professionals for whom this conference was actually designed? Surely they have a different perspective on all the “breaking news.”
For some insight from an attending clinician and researcher, we turned one of our favorite diabetes experts, Dr. Richard Jackson, an endocrinologist at the…
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March is Women’s History Month, a memorial that’s necessary because traditionally, women never made into history books, despite their indelible impact on so many different fields. Diabetes is no exception! From physicians to actors to scientists to athletes, women have been a huge force in improving the care of diabetes and how people perceive this condition. So today, we’ve chosen to highlight three of those women: Dr. Priscilla White, Eva Saxl and Helen Murray Free. …
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AmyT on
January 10, 2009
Finally, a press release that is unquestionably post-worthy: on Friday, the legendary Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston announced that it’s received a million-dollar grant to support type 1 diabetes research.
The money comes from a wealthy patient with his own philanthropic organization: the Thomas J. Beatson, Jr. Foundation. Beatson lives in Phoenix, AZ, and is also a Joslin Medalist for living with type 1 diabetes for 50 or more years. He’s given funds to the…
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