….and the answer is, anyone who has ever enrolled in a diabetes research project. Years ago, I was talking to a friend, his name is Kenny Bernstein. He had an islet cell transplant. For a good amount of time, he did not need to take insulin, he did not need to check his blood sugars, […]
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So many kids are writing letters to Santa…….welllllllllll….what if Santa wrote them back? That’s right, Santa will write a letter to your child on beautiful Christmas letterhead that will be very personal. Perhaps mentioning their teacher by name, or your pet by name, letting children know how proud Santa is in the way they are taking care of their […]
….and the answer is, who is Camillo Ricordi. There is no argument that there is much great research happening in the world today and surely, all of us parents, are unified in the single thought that we want the cure; yesterday. Dr. Ricordi made the decision years ago that it was not important that HE […]
……and the answer is, who is Brandy Barnes. Brandy is the founder and CEO of Diabetes Sisters which was founded in 2008. Diagnosed with diabetes in the early 1990s, Brandy knows and remembered the many obstacles she lived with during her battles with diabetes. With little information geared specifically toward women and diabetes (all types) and […]
…..and the answer is, who is Mary Tyler Moore. We can argue the point whether or not Ms. Moore is the greatest TV and/or Female TV personality of all time; but she stands alone when it comes to spokesperson in the world of diabetes. I can tell you from meeting her many times and actually […]
….and the answer is, who is Dana Ball. It is not enough just to say that Dana serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the T1D Exchange. The T1D Exchange was designed to connect the disparate stakeholders in the type 1 diabetes community — individuals with type 1 diabetes, caregivers, clinicians, researchers and industry partners — […]