News and Updates

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.

It’s 2004. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), which will fund $3 billion in stem cell research to advances new therapies, is on the ballot, if it gets approved. Fortunately, the patients, families and scientists were the voices that day, with nearly 60% voting to approve it. In the time since 2004, it has […]

Fifty years ago, two mothers came together to make the world a better place for their children and for other people burdened with type 1 diabetes.

Also, what it means to be “actively lazy”— and how to avoid it. And no gym, no home exercise equipment? Workarounds you can use to work out at home.

With coronavirus closing schools and forcing so many people to stay inside or wear facemasks every time they step outdoors, COVID-19 is threatening to make everyone stir-crazy well into summer. And unfortunately, the safety of herd immunity remains a long way off. In the meantime, scientists are battling coronavirus in a number of ways, and […]

How to protect yourself according to advice from type 1 diabetes medical experts and the CDC's recommendations for those at higher risk of severe illness.

It was 2015—five years ago—that three organizations (BreakthroughT1D, the Endocrine Society and the American Diabetes Association) published a statement urging the adoption of a staging system of type 1 diabetes (T1D) that uses islet autoantibodies as biomarkers. (Biomarkers, in this sense, are indicators that a person is developing T1D but is still without symptoms.) It […]

The Breakthrough T1D-Beyond Type 1 Alliance has brought together leaders of the international diabetes community to create recommendations to curb the spread of Covid-19 and keep people with diabetes as safe as possible during the global pandemic.

What the federal economic relief package, also known as the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) means for donors to Breakthrough T1D.

We continue sharing expert responses to your top incoming questions. Note these responses are not intended to be medical advice, for that—as always—you must consult your own personal physician.