Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Type 1 Diabetes Advocacy: Meet the Goulds

By AmyT on June 23, 2009

As people with diabetes or parents of children with diabetes, we all know how difficult it is to manage the never-ending balance of food, insulin, exercise and myriad of other endlessly circumvolving variables.  Now imagine having to handle all of that turmoil for FOUR children.
Meet Ellen and Dave Gould, parents of EIGHT children ages 17 to 2 years old — four of whom are living with type 1 diabetes. This week, Ellen, a stay-at-home mom,…

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JDRF on Stem Cell Research Boost: An Interview with Larry Soler

By AmyT on March 9, 2009

As you all know, President Obama lifted Bush’s longstanding restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research yesterday — a huge breakthrough for all those who believe this avenue could produce unprecedented treatments for many incurable diseases. Like diabetes.

Among others, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has fought long and hard for this boost.  Its staff and members are pretty much ecstatic.  A small group including Larry Soler, the organization’s EVP of…

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Stem Cell Research Finally Unleashed! (Follow it via JDRF’s New Twitter)

By AmyT on March 8, 2009

As a person with Type 1 diabetes, whose life is all wrapped up in helping others with this incurable illness, it’s hard to express the relief and yes — joy — that I feel knowing that researchers hands will finally be untied by Obama today to freely explore the enormous possibilities of stem cell research!
Fortunately for me, another journalist living with Type 1 named Mike Littwin at the Denver Post has just done an…

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