College student. What comes to mind? Late nights, junk food, football weekends, beer, wild weekends, Animal House? Yes. College is often all these and more. Now add Type I Juvenile Diabetes to this mix. What do you get? A juggling act. As a Type I Diabetic of almost 18 years I thought I knew every obstacle I would face. It was not until I began the perilous journey through the traps and pitfalls of college that I realized there were many challenges I was yet to face, and much more to learn.

During my first week on campus at Purdue University I met countless new faces, I was taken to house parties, I had a paper due on the second day of class, I decided to rush a fraternity, and

We congratulate JDRF National Outreach volunteer Lisa Shenson on being honored with the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award by California’s Marin County Commission on Human Rights.

Lisa is being recognized for her advocacy work on behalf of children with diabetes. She provides direct assistance and support to families with legal issues surrounding diabetes care at school.

Lisa is a longstanding moderator for JDRF’s Online Diabetes Support Team, a group of dedicated JDRF volunteers who help people with type 1 diabetes and their families by answering the

Dear Friends of the Diabetes Community,

We are delighted to announce the introduction of a new bill, AB 1802, into the California Legislature by Assembly Member Isadore Hall III (D-Compton) in support of children with diabetes attending California schools.  Hall’s bill would establish a procedure by which a parent or guardian can designate a trained volunteer school employee to administer insulin to a child with diabetes in a public school, based on the medical instructions provided by the child’s physician.  Read the press release.<

In a landmark study in children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Cambridge showed that using a first-generation artificial pancreas system overnight can lower the risk of low blood sugar emergencies while sleeping, and at the same time improve diabetes control.

Results from the studies are published in the February 5, 2010, issue of The Lancet, available online at www.thelancet.com.  An article also appeared in the New York Times on the same day as The Lancet article was published and you may read it atread more...

We have 5 special events in 2010, including a Toy Story 3 Gala Preview!