Joe Toucan: A Girl, A Doll, A Diabetes Mission
How do you explain to a young child with diabetes why her parents are hurting her with finger pricks and insulin injections every day? Hollywood producer Rocky Lang is one dad who struggled with that...
View ArticleDiabetes: The Possibilities
It doesn’t seem possible. In this day and age, with all the advanced medicines and devices, the diligent attention so many of us pay to our glucose control and that of our diabetic children… How can a...
View ArticleA Few Suggestions for Your Year-End Diabetes Donation Love
With the fiscal year ending on Friday, it’s time to make any last minute tax-deductible donations. Fortunately, the diabetes community is not short on non-profit organizations dedicated to educating,...
View ArticleLeah Fox: Teen with a Talent for Giving Back
While most kids were busy thinking about Barbies and video games, Leah Fox was busy building a business plan. Now the ripe age of 14, Leah knew the power of an insulin pump early on, and she wanted to...
View ArticleSix Pumpers to Swim the English Channel
Coming up any day now, for the first time ever, six swimmers with diabetes — all wearing Animas insulin pumps — will take part in a relay race across the English Channel! The team is led by Mark...
View ArticleChatting with Novelist + Diabetes Auction Queen Brenda Novak
Brenda Novak is best known to the world as a New York Times best-selling author of historical and contemporary romance novels. But to the diabetes community, she’s famous for being the founder of...
View ArticleADA Defends Telemarketing Snafu Amid Fallout
Ohio resident Carol Patterson, who donated her time and convinced some of her neighbors to help out the American Diabetes Association, is disgusted with the organization and doesn’t plan to contribute...
View ArticleOctober’s Best of the ‘Betes Blogs
It’s officially National Diabetes Awareness Month as of today, Nov. 1 — so get out your blue and start celebrating/advocating!! We’re excited to kick off the month by hosting Best of the ‘Betes Blogs...
View ArticlePresenting Blue Cupcake, the Diabetes Answer to Hallmark Cards
Today we’re proud to present an exclusive announcement here at the ‘Mine, of a new project spearheaded by our own Allison (Blass) Nimlos! She’s kicking off November, the big month of D-awareness, by...
View ArticleBig Blue Test >> Diabetes Help for Haiti!
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...
View ArticlePinstriping for Diabetes Art Day (and a Charitable Giveaway)
Hola! Today is Diabetes Art Day, time again to tap into our best artsy skills to show the world what it’s really like to live with diabetes. Did you forget? Don’t worry: There’s still time to break out...
View ArticleMajor Kudos to Diabetes Teen Volunteers
In West Virginia, a 16-year-old with type 1 recruited hundreds of walkers and raised a record amount of money for his local JDRF chapter because he wanted to give back to a worthy cause. In New York,...
View ArticleRiding a Bike for Diabetes… If the Money Allows
I rode in my first-ever Tour de Cure this past weekend. Our local Indiana Tour de Cure on Saturday morning took place on and around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Central Indiana, and I was proud...
View ArticleOn Piloting Planes with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
Lots of kids dream of becoming airline pilots… but if you have diabetes, forget about it! Right? Maybe not… PWDs (people with diabetes) are forbidden from flying commercial airplanes here in the U.S.,...
View ArticleSaving the World from Giant Dinosaurs… While Managing Blood Sugars
We’re proud to say that another innovation entered in the DiabetesMine Design Challenge back in 2009 is making strides. And this one has to do with slaying giant dinosaur monsters! It’s a new video...
View ArticleAware-lidays Giveaway: Delicious Ways to Get Level!
We’re back with our fourth installment of the 2013 DiabetesMine ‘Aware-lidays’ Giveaway, mixing up November’s Diabetes Awareness with the approaching holiday season… Yup, it’s Awareness + Holidays =...
View ArticleDiabetes Flower Power: Second Spare A Rose Campaign Going Strong!
The butter compartment of my fridge is fully stocked with unopened bottles of chilled insulin. I’m so very thankful to have this medicine that keeps me alive, when so many people around the world...
View ArticleA Cautionary Tale on Seeking Charitable Donations
With so many fledgling or small non-profits and charitable organizations cropping up in our Diabetes Community (and across the broader healthcare scene), many are eager for any help they can get in...
View ArticleTimesulin: Crowdfunding = Freedom of Patient Choice
John Sjölund and the international team of Timesulin want you to cast your vote to expand the choices of tools and treatment available to you as a patient. OK, and they want you to do it by...
View ArticleJerry the Diabetes Bear Visits the White House … and Starts Crowdfunding!
Our little robotic teddy friend affectionately known as Jerry the Bear (with diabetes) made the trek to the White House recently, and snagged a seat in a room where the president was speaking! Yep, it...
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