Former Gator and current Minnesota Twins basketball player, Corey Brewer, will host his fourth annual basketball camp in Gainesville in August. Camp attendees will take part in lectures, drill stations and contests, player evaluations and 5-on-5 games.
We want to thank everyone who submitted entries to the 5th Annual World Diabetes Day Photo Contest for promoting awareness of diabetes. Our combined strength is the key element which makes this campaign so special. As you browse the entries, you will see that the pictures submitted show proof of that commitment.
Researchers at the UF Diabetes Center of Excellence are beta testing the Leica LMD7000 Laser Microdissection System, believed to help advance biomedical research. The Laser system has a variety of uses in both clinical & research pathology, and is currently benefiting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation funded Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes (nPOD).
This November, the American Diabetes Association wants your help to shed light on the many people affected by diabetes. Share a personal image representing what “A Day in the Life of Diabetes” means to you! For every photo/image uploaded, CVS/pharmacy®, a proud sponsor of the ADA, will donate $1 to the Association, up to $25,000. Visit today!
Approximately twenty-five percent of Americans who have type 2 diabetes don’t know it. Are you one of them? Find out if you are at risk for type 2 diabetes by answering a few simple questions included in this one minute test. There has never been a more urgent time to know your risk. An estimated 79 million, or one in three American adults, have prediabetes.
Fact: Diabetes caused approximately 4.6 million global deaths in 2011 alone. In addition, 183 million people (50%) with diabetes worldwide are currently undiagnosed. World Diabetes Day is held on November 14th of each year and engages millions of people worldwide in diabetes advocacy, education, and awareness.
The International Diabetes Federation has developed a special application to raise awareness of the Glycaemic Index (GI) and the various nutritional components that make up a healthy and well-balanced diet. These interactive tools displays a variety of foods, divided by food group, with an indication of their respective GI values and whether the food causes a slow, medium or rapid rise in blood glucose levels.
In an interview with International Innovation, Todd Brusko, PhD, explains how changes in the field of diabetes research are giving his team of scientists at the UF Diabetes Center of Excellence new opportunities and hope to be able to translate their laboratory findings into clinical treatments. Currently, his team is investigating treatments for type 1 diabetes based on their experiments with regulatory T cells, known as “Tregs.” Learn more.
In a new report issued by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, adult obesity rates could exceed 60% in 13 states by 2030. The number of obese adults, along with related disease rates and health care costs, are on course to increase dramatically in every state over the next 20 years. By contrast, the analysis also shows that states could prevent obesity-related diseases and dramatically reduce health care costs if they reduced the average BMI of their residents by just 5 percent by 2030.
Looking to make a difference in the lives of children with type 1 diabetes throughout the country? Apply to become a Children's Congress 2013 delegate, and let your legislators know why T1D research is so important! The deadline for applications to be received by JDRF is 5pm EDT, Thursday, November 1, 2012. Learn more.
