Buying a dozen roses is a traditional way many people say “I love you” for Valentine’s Day. But what if that token of affection also meant saving the life of a child with diabetes?
For the first time this year, it does! All you have to do is be a part of a new grassroots effort called Spare a Rose, Save a Child.
A small group of our friends in the Diabetes Online Community (DOC)…
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!!
At the close of last year, we asked the top diabetes advocacy organizations and communities to share what they felt they’d accomplished in 2011, and what kinds of plans / goals / strategies they had in mind for 2012?
It only makes sense that we return to them this year with the same question: did they meet their own expectations for 2012? And what do they envision for continuing to help…
To my mind, the DiabetesMine Innovation Summit I’ve hosted the last two years is not a “conference.” Rather, in the true tradition of a “Summit,” it aims to bring key decision-makers and other folks passionate about diabetes care together in one room for some very frank conversations about where we are now, what needs improvement, and how we can get to a better place as quickly as possible.
On that note, the Pharma executives and…
The 2012 Big Blue Test campaign is open for business. That’s the huge international online “glucose test-in” organized by Manny Hernandez and his team at the Diabetes Hands Foundation. It emphasizes the importance of exercise with diabetes, and just as last year, if the campaign hits its goal of of 20,000 entries, the program sponsor (Roche Accu-Chek) will donate $100,000 to charitable D-organizations.
But this year, the group is expanding the scope of where that…
The clock is counting down to the world’s biggest month of diabetes awareness!
For those of us living every day of our lives with diabetes, it may seem a little odd that the topic suddenly comes alive each November, as if diabetes awareness weren’t at the forefronts of our minds every other day and month of the year… But then again, we should probably revel in taking over November as “our prime time of the…