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Thursday, July 29, 2010

“Diabetes is a complex disease and there’s a lot you can do with exercise to manage it,” says Jacqueline Shahar, who is a Clinical Exercise Physiologist, a Certified Diabetes Educator and the manager of the exercise physiology department at Joslin. She recently sat down to answer eight questions about Joslin’s exercise programs and about how best to engage in physical activity with diabetes.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Children and their families came out to Joslin earlier this month for the Pediatric Clinic’s fifth annual Summer Magic event. The children participated in crafts, played limbo and bean-bag toss, enjoyed a picnic dinner and saw a magic show.

Monday, July 26, 2010

When type 1 diabetes wipes out the body’s insulin-producing beta cells, how can they be replaced? That’s been a focus of research for decades for Gordon Weir, M.D., and his wife, Susan Bonner-Weir, Ph.D. 

Friday, July 23, 2010

Back in 2005, Anna Tiedeman Irwin was looking to organize a fundraising event that required no athletic ability, was a lot of fun and wouldn’t intimidate people from participating. The movie Dodgeball had just come out and served as inspiration for the First Annual Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball tournament.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Mustang, the car that "changed everything" in the automotive industry, will now contribute to finding a cure for diabetes. Joslin is raffling off a special edition of the famous "muscle" car – the Iacocca Silver 45th Anniversary Edition Ford Mustang.