Medical experts recognize type 5 diabetes as separate from other types, requiring specialized treatment focusing on ...
Forty years ago, a small group of families founded an organization that has become known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), a group dedicated to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes ...
Once known as “juvenile” diabetes, type 1 diabetes was long considered a childhood disease. Although the condition is often diagnosed in children and teenagers, it can develop at any age. Type 1 ...
HIGHLAND | Diabetes is a baffling disease. According to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes. It is said 70,000 children are diagnosed in the U.S ...
CUTLINES It took a stint in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for Taelem Rodriguez's parents to learn that he had Type I diabetes. But the 4-year-old's mother, Vicki Rodriguez, doesn't want that to be ...
A Shreveport mother has become just the second person in northwest Louisiana to undergo a breakthrough treatment that can ...
More than 2 million people across Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have some form of diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Mattel is bringing attention to the ...
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What Is Type 1 Diabetes?

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition. This means the body's immune system, which is meant to defend against dangerous invaders like viruses or bacteria, destroys the insulin-making beta cells of ...
Formerly known as JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), Breakthrough T1D is the global leader in Type 1 diabetes ...
She has a purse, heels, an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor. She is the new Barbie, and she has Type 1 diabetes. Mattel introduced the new doll Tuesday, its first with diabetes. “This ...
A couple have raised more than £13,000 after their son received a "shock" type-1 diabetes diagnosis just before his second birthday. Somerset-based racehorse trainers Joe and Rachel say their son ...