
Artificial Pancreas Project Featured Today on Channel 2 KTVU The DoctorsToday at 4:00 PM on the nationally-syndicated television show The Doctors (CBS Channel 2 KTVU) will present Futuristic Medicine Can Change Your Life. According to the show’s website thedoctorstv.com/main/show_page/D2123 the program will explore “bionic limbs, robots and advanced biotechnology … the fantastical designs of science fiction are fast becoming a life-saving reality. See a robotic breakthrough for the treatment of autism. Defy gravity with a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for pets.” The Juvenile Diabetes Research FoundationR read more... |
A Juggling ActCollege 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 read more... |
JDRF Volunteer Lisa Shenson HonoredWe 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 read more... |
Important Legislative News For Diabetes Families In CaliforniaDear 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.< read more... |
Thank you to the thousands of wonderful family and corporate walkers who helped make this year's Walk to Cure Diabetes so spectacular. Thanks to you, we have raised 69% of our goal of $2,180,000!
Will you help us reach our goal? Please register today to create a personal fundraising page and send out a fundraising letter asking people to support JDRF. Doing so will help ensure that exciting diabetes research moves forward, like JDRF's Artificial Pancreas Project.
Photos from the Walk!
Photos from the 5 JDRF Bay Area walks are posted on Flickr groups:
San Francisco | North Bay | East Bay | Silicon Valley | Monterey Bay
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