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Better Health for Asian Americans — and All Moms and Babies
This Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage month, let’s all support efforts to improve the health of this and other at-risk communities! Continue reading
Our New Book with JDRF Focuses on Care for People with Type 1 Diabetes
The American Diabetes Association and JDRF have joined forces to identify what is known—and unknown—about diagnosing and treating type 1 diabetes from birth to senior years. Continue reading
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Stopping Diabetes in 2013
It is an honor to serve as President, Medicine & Science, of the American Diabetes Association this year. Having volunteered for more than 20 years, I know how far we’ve come in the fight to Stop Diabetes®—and how much work is still ahead of us. Continue reading
Advocacy is Our Priority
Diabetes is a growing epidemic, one taking a devastating physical, emotional and financial toll on millions of children and adults across the country. Currently, in the U.S. there are nearly 26 million people living with diabetes and another 79 million … Continue reading
Stopping Diabetes Through Innovation
On Nov. 16, dozens of people gathered at Stanford University for the 2012 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit. Patient advocates, entrepreneurs, health care practitioners, device designers, pharmaceutical companies and industry experts all met with one goal in mind: changing the diabetes world … Continue reading
Recap of the 72nd Scientific Sessions
It’s been a week since my colleagues and I returned from Philadelphia, where the American Diabetes Association hosted its 72nd Scientific Sessions — and my mind is still buzzing with all the exciting news, connections and conversations that emerged. It … Continue reading
Scientific Sessions Update: ORIGIN Study Finds No Increased Heart, Cancer Risk from Daily Insulin
BREAKING NEWS: We’ve got more good news about the safety of using insulin. Researchers have reported that daily injections, begun during the early stages of type 2 diabetes, neither increased nor reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes, cancer or … Continue reading
