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American Diabetes Association: Fully Fund Diabetes in 2015

Congress will soon go home for the year, but first we need the House and Senate to take action in the fight against diabetes.

Take just one minute to tell Congress to fully fund diabetes.

Right now, Congress is back in session and is preparing to make critical funding decisions. We need them to pass legislation providing critical increased resources for diabetes research and programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during Fiscal Year 2015.

Tell your Members of Congress it’s vital they do their part to Stop Diabetes® by passing a bill that fully funds diabetes research and programs. That is the best way to ensure the resources needed to improve diabetes innovation, prevention, and treatment, to prevent the costly complications, and to find a cure.

Nearly 30 million Americans have diabetes and another 86 million people have prediabetes, with those numbers growing every day. If we are going to reverse this epidemic, we must tell Members of Congress today to fully fund diabetes research and prevention programs at the NIH and CDC.

If you’re in the US, please take a moment and do this. Diabetes is no laughing matter.

American Diabetes Association: Fully Fund Diabetes in 2015

One Day Without Diabetes

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Every once in a while you deserve the right to take a day or two off from your work, whether it’s from a job or a school, to relax and forget about the daily grind and routine. But this is such luxury which people who suffer from chronic illnesses like Type 1 Diabetes cannot afford – neither the patients themselves nor the family looking after or supporting them. Managing the condition is a full time job 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Not a single day off.  Not one.

Sometimes you wish you could take just that one day off to feel ‘normal’. Eat what you like without worrying about carb counting, walk barefoot on the beach without worrying about getting cuts on your feet or just sleep as long as you want to without having to wake up and check your blood sugar levels or do your injections. Just for one day.

New developments to find a cure for diabetes look promising, such as the discovery of how to grow insulin-producing cells by Harvard University scientists. But the absolute, definite cure is still years away in the future. In the meantime, the focus on lessening the burden of diabetes management through artificial pancreas provides a glimmer of hope; being able to take that one day off from diabetes and achieve a degree of normalcy may not be wishful thinking anymore.

November is diabetes awareness month culminating in the World Diabetes Day on the 14th day of the month. This one day puts continued focus on driving awareness and advocacy for the condition and ultimately to finding the elusive cure. We can all play a part in this by supporting and helping the global diabetes community spread the word so that the day we are hoping for will come sooner rather than later – one day.

To find out more about the World Diabetes Day click here.

American Diabetes Association: Help seniors access CGM!

Please take a moment to sign this. Currently, most people using CGMs have to go off them when they go on Medicare. That’s not right. Quality of care and access to medical devices should not decrease just because one reaches 65.

The Medicare CGM Access Act of 2014 (S. 2689/ H.R. 5644) will provide Medicare coverage for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices to qualified individuals, and provide an important pathway for the next generation of CGM-related technologies. Additionally, it will allow for better management of diabetes and reduce the risk of severe, and costly, complications.

American Diabetes Association: Help seniors access CGM!