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Interview with Stefany Shaheen: Revolutionizing diabetes care through cell therapies

I had the extraordinary opportunity to chat with Stefany Shaheen, the Chief Strategy Officer of Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) and BioFab USA, about the transformative potential of cell therapies for individuals living with diabetes. Stefany shared her remarkable journey, insights on cell therapies' current status, approval challenges, and how the diabetes community can contribute to advancing research in this field.

Evidence-based hope in diabetes

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One of our favorite subjects at BDI is evidence-based hope! We meet people with diabetes every day who are discouraged and beaten down because they feel hopeless that diabetes will cause terrible things to happen to them. We don't think that has to be true. Instead, we like to talk about what we call evidence-based hope.

It’s not normal

Let me be clear from the start. I am thankful for every piece of medical equipment, technology, milligram, microgram, and unit of medicine I use. I am fortunate to have reasonable access to almost everything I need. I am blessed even to be alive. It wasn't that long ago that people with diabetes didn't live long. But...

2012 Medtronic Diabetes Advocates Forum

Medtronic Diabetes hosted the second ‘Medtronic Diabetes Advocates Forum’ at their headquarters in Northridge, CA last week.  Myself and nearly thirty others involved in diabetes social media spent about a day and a half visiting with some of the brightest…

Type-1 University

Are you an “insulin user who wants focused, expert information that is relevant to your daily life?” (from their press release).  You might be interested in a new project that Gary Scheiner recently launched called Type-1 University. Gary is looking…