Hybrid diabetes

We are working on some new ideas for fund-raising and Team activities for the upcoming walk season. Until we have news on that front, here are some of the latest diabetes-related headlines.

A hybrid diabetes?
Doctors think they may have discovered a form of diabetes that presents as Type II in teens then develops into full-blown Type I diabetes. The result is young patients faced with a wide range of both symptoms and multiple treatment regimes. >>Learn more>>

UC San Francisco a leader in stem cell & diabetes research
With stem cell research so much in the news lately with all the debates in Washington, here is a story about the role UCSF has played on an international front in developing new stem cell techniques through private funding sources. Includes a short story on the work to find a cure for diabetes.>>Learn more>>

4-year-old Lobbies Congress
Michigan girl and her mother, who both have diabetes, go to Washingon D.C. to lobby Congress for more funding for diabetes research. The girl, who hopes the trip will cure her disease, is crushed when her mother explains there is no magic cure in the halls of Congress. >>Learn more>>