Pretty Simple Cure

01/20/2023

This young lady does a fantastic job highlighting what it is like living with type 1 diabetes. How we worry about the cost of insulin, aging out of coverage at age 26, and the cost diabetics pay.

‎Show TED Talks Daily, Ep Why the price of insulin is a danger to diabetics | Brooke Bennett - Aug 25, 2022

05/16/2022

Junior Prom 2022.
Rocking the Dexcom and her dress had pockets for her Tandem Diabetes Care pump!

05/04/2022

Curious as to why the Trial wasn’t allowed to continue when showing such promise?

On day 270, a patient in the Vertex Pharmaceutical’s clinical trial to treat type 1 diabetes achieved insulin independence.

04/10/2022

Nothing like a pressure low to get the adrenaline going. 🙄

03/28/2022

In our own back yard.

Research from the U of M provides new cryopreservation method to overcome supply chain roadblocks in diabetes cure.

03/21/2022

Optimistic.

Several “very, very promising” biomedical trials suggest that a full cure for diabetes is in sight, 100 years after Frederick Banting and Charles Best announced the discovery of insulin.

03/18/2022

Can’t tell you how great it is to see mainstream brands Hollister Co. showing off the hardware. Gracie wears a Dexcom G6, and it is literally a lifesaver. Alerts us to low blood sugars (especially at night when she doesn’t wake from lows) through an alarm on our phone. Without these notifications, her blood sugar could become dangerously low (or high for that matter) and become life threatening. Thankful for technology. But we still need a cure. The cost of a 3 month supply of sensors and 1 transmitter is approximately $1400. This is in addition to pump supplies, and of course insulin. Which a type 1 diabetic cannot live without.

03/14/2022

Not going to lie. This was one of my first thoughts when I saw Ukraine being invaded. Pray for all those depending on medications! ❤️

Ukrainian pharmacist Tetyana Rutkis in her pharmacy, in Kyiv on March 9, 2022. She said she is quickly running out of essential medicines. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post)KYIV, Ukraine — The temperature was below freezing and the pharmacy line was way out the door. But Tetyana Dagadaeva coul...

03/12/2022

https://beyondtype1.org/turning-red-diabetes-insulin-pump/?fbclid=IwAR3w43MmXpdtiGph5BoNYJ28EEXCGkVLD8p3Nbcc-dAene_OvkhOOkzcUew

Pixar technical supervisor Susan Fong lives with type 1 diabetes and brings diabetes representation to new film Turning Red.

03/08/2022

13-year-old Joshua Davis was honored by President Joe Biden at the State of the Union for his years of diabetes advocacy