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.
Breakthrough T1D Plays a Leadership Role, Again, to Marshal Resources for T1D Research
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 […]
The Breakthrough T1D Journey: Where It All Began
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.
How Much Exercise to Help Manage T1D and Optimize One’s Immune System?
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.
At the Front Lines in COVID-19: Breakthrough T1D-Funded Scientist’s Company Developing a Vaccine
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 […]
