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NEWS
This new brand clearly expresses
JDRF's global role in spearheading its
research endeavour to prevent, treat
and cure Type 1 diabetes ~
Karen Addington
1 diabetes research, advocacy, and
inclusive community support.
JDRF has led the search for cures
for T1D since the organisation was
founded more than 50 years ago
by families of children living with
T1D when the disease was known
as 'Juvenile Diabetes' because it was
frequently diagnosed in, and strongly
associated with, young children.
As Juvenile Diabetes is no longer a
term used by clinicians, it's right that
we reflect on our language and use
recognised terms, such as T1D. The
term T1D has been chosen as it is
both used and recognised by people
living with the condition.
www.jdrf.org.uk
Old-fangled still works
We're forever writing about new
technologies in this magazine. Some of
them remove the need for you to input
any blood monitoring data by doing the
tracking themselves and feeding the
results into readers, apps, the cloud or
other software. Yet, for the less techie
types, nothing beats an old-fashioned
blood test diary.
Desang's diaries are £9 for a pack of
six. Each lasts one month (so a cost of
£1.50 per month). Use it to track foods
eaten, medicine, doses as well as results,
which can be traced on a graph. You can
flip the diary to see 'waves' of results on
the pages and spot trends of highs or
lows. The signal will never drop, and there's
no need to charge it!
Excusively available from Diabetes
UK's online shop.
THE DESANG DIABETES DIARY: sometimes only paper and pen will do.
www.diabetes.org.uk/shop/desangdiary