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The hubbub about BioHub

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 03.08.2013

The News: The Diabetes Research Institute unveiled: “A ‘Mini-Organ’ Delivering Real Insulin in Real Time.” According to their website, “With the BioHub, the DRI is taking a quantum leap toward a biological cure.” What This Means for the T1D Community: This very well may be true. So true, in fact, that JDRF provides the DRI [...]

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Why it MUST be T1D.

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 03.04.2013

Everyone living with T1D knows the kind of teeth-gritting frustration that comes when people don’t understand the difference between T1D and type 2 diabetes. Last week, the Bay Area found itself in an uproar after prominent radio and TV stations ran a story asserting that high sugar diets bring on diabetes. Nowhere was there distinction [...]

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PRO Anti-CD3 or: Further Steps Toward Stopping the Auto-immune Attack

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 03.01.2013

The News: Treatment with the immuno-supressant drug teplizumab helped to preserve beta cells in people newly diagnosed with T1D! What This Means for the T1D Community: Just after Will was diagnosed, Bill and I decided to test our other two kids. (For helpful information on testing for T1D, click THIS.) Siblings of kids with T1D–sadly–have [...]

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You Know You’re Living with T1D . . .

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 02.25.2013

…when you have a scary-enough low-blood-sugar moment that you feel the need to restock each and every T1D supply in the whole house. The crazy-haired woman at the grocery store check-out gapes at the small mountain of Air Heads candies you dump onto the counter. She says, “Having a party?” You say, “Not exactly.” [...]

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T1D’s Best Friend . . . or ENEMY.

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 02.22.2013

The News: Scientists at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona “cured” dogs of T1D by injecting genes into their muscles. Now. My genetics are limited to those handy Mendelian diagrams (Punnet Squares? That just popped into my head…). I liked to doodle them in the margins of high school notebooks to see what color eyes [...]

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Now for the GOOD NEWS.

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 02.18.2013

Last week I told you all how Bruce Buckingham said that he was confident my 15-year-old son Will would have access to an artificial pancreas within the next few years, but that Will “might not like it.” The kid likes his pump well enough. But he really does not like the CGM that his mother [...]

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Today’s Six-Million Dollar Beta Cell

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 02.15.2013

The News: To continue developing its encapsulated stem-cell treatment for T1D, ViaCyte will receive an additional $3 million from both JDRF and CIRM (California Institute for Regenerative Medicine). What This Means for the T1D Community: People, this is huge. Having an extra $6 million drop into your lap from astute organizations like JDRF and CIRM means [...]

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The Artificial Pancreas: Reality, but also . . . Fantasy?

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 02.11.2013

A lot of you have heard of the legendary Bruce Buckingham: Stanford researcher, endocrinologist, mastermind behind much artificial pancreas development, and just generally a spectacular human being. I was lucky enough to get an extra-large dose of Dr. Buckingham’s smarts at a recent event to honor—and to fundraise—for his many studies. At the event, Dr. [...]

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Not Even at Camp.

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 01.14.2013

It might have been comical. In a low-ceilinged storeroom off the kitchen of the summer camp I went to for seven summers when I was a kid, I sat next to the best friend who went with me. Across from us on an ancient office chair whose coverless yellow foam seat pad made me itchy [...]

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Double the fun!

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 01.11.2013

The News: Tandem announced plans–in partnership with JDRF–to develop a dual-chambered insulin pump! What This Means for the T1D Community: Ever felt like you were trying to steer your T1D bike with a hand tied behind your back? There are lots of reasons to feel this way. One of the ways I feel most wobbly [...]

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