The Power of YES—How to Thrive in Life Despite Diabetes
Author and T1D mom Moira McCarthy shares the secrets to having a family that thrives even after a family member has been diagnosed.
Medtronic Panel Discusses Supporting T1D Community During COVID-19
During a recent Breakthrough T1D Facebook Live event, a panel of leaders discussed Medtronic’s efforts to support the T1D community during the pandemic.
Quarantine Life: How Some T1D Families Are Coping
How a few Breakthrough T1D families have been managing the challenges of working from home while home schooling during the pandemic, and their messages of hope for the T1D community.
Meet the Scientist: Local Immune Suppression with a Novel Protein
Mark Poznansky, M.D., Ph.D., wants the seemingly impossible—a person with type 1 diabetes (T1D) has a procedure where beta cells are placed in their body, the doctor stitches it up and the person has functioning insulin-producing beta cells, for life. Of course, we’re not there yet, but, with Dr. Poznansky—and many, many other researchers—Breakthrough T1D […]
Improving the Lives of Veterans With Diabetes
How to access the latest diabetes management tools through the Department of Veterans Affairs with Armed For Diabetes .
Public and Private Organizations, All with the Same Goal: End T1D
In this time of great uncertainty, there is some exciting news out of Europe. Innodia, a partnership between public and private entities working together to fund research aimed at biomarker discovery and the prevention of type 1 diabetes (T1D), received an additional €12 million in funding from the European Commission, Breakthrough T1D and the Helmsley […]
Insulin Contains the Expected Quantity of Active Insulin
Credit: Diabetes Care In December 2017, the type 1 diabetes (T1D) community got a jolt, when a publication, testing the insulin concentrations in 18 vials, said that “none of the vials met the minimum labeled concentration standard.” In other words, insulin was not at the recommended dose; in fact, the percentage of insulin was around […]
A Promising (Preclinical) Vaccine for Type 1 Diabetes
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could take a vaccine in infancy, and type 1 diabetes would not develop? Preclinical research suggests it might not be that far away.
Dr. Carla Greenbaum Talks about T1D TrialNet During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Carla Greenbaum, M.D., chair of TrialNet—an international Breakthrough T1D-supported network that is dedicated to finding cures for type 1 diabetes (T1D)—and a professor at Benaroya Research Institute, discussed T1D research in the time of COVID-19, including what TrialNet is up to, on Breakthrough T1D’s Facebook Live event. She chats about: What do we know now […]
5 Key Points from Q&A with Aaron Kowalski and Rob Howe
Included: navigating the fundraising challenges brought by COVID-19, how Breakthrough T1D has evolved as an organization, life with T1D in the 1970s and 1980s, the crucial role of advocacy, and the importance of the T1D community working together.
