Content warning: This story is about a young man who tragically died from diabetes complications and experienced mental illnesses In May 2024, Evan Hunt laced up his running shoes and […]
Guest post from Devin Myers, RN Devin Myers is a health writer as well as a registered nurse. She has experience in various areas of nursing including critical care and hemodialysis. […]
Suzanne Reisler Litwin has been fundraising for JDRF, quite close to the organization’s founding and has a goal of raising $50,000 for this year’s Montreal JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes […]
Update – May 9, 2024 Breakthrough T1D Canada has been clarifying elements of Bill C-64 – National Pharmacare Act with the government and we wanted to share what we’ve learned. […]
Alison Hunt is celebrating her 28th DiaVersary by walking 28km to raise funds for JDRF and T1D research I was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario and moved to Ottawa, […]
JDRF’s Mental Health and Diabetes Strategy – where we are now May is Mental Health Awareness month, a national movement to raise awareness of the importance of mental health, and […]
The BETTER project, a Canadian research initiative, gets a boost from renewed JDRF funding. Bringing together patient partners – people living, or with a child living, with type 1 diabetes […]
National Volunteer Week takes place from April 14 – 20, 2024, as organizations across the country celebrate those who generously donate their time and talents to their community. The National […]
I was living in Winnipeg; I’ve spent my whole life here. I was diagnosed at the age of 6, spring of 1974, it was the May long weekend. I was […]
We lived in the Niagara region. My brother who is one year older than me was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) at age 4, and one year later, I […]
I’ve lived in Toronto my entire life. I’m currently 60 years old, I was diagnosed in 1970, 53 years ago. I remember getting up in the middle of the night, […]
Dr. James Shapiro is a British-Canadian surgeon best known for leading the clinical team that developed the Edmonton Protocol – an islet transplant procedure for the treatment of type 1 […]
