Diabetes Partner Follies: Meet Jackie Farrell

As we know, diabetes doesn’t just affect the person with diabetes – it affects the whole family. So we’re back with another edition of our Partner Follies series, a place where the partners of PWDs can share what it’s like for them to live with an…

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About The Test Kitchen Welcome to the new DiabetesMine Test Kitchen, the first-ever video product review site for and by people affected by diabetes.We're excited to offer this central place where you can view and comment on reviews of all sorts of D-related products by......
‘I don’t know how to get better’: Laia Abril shows the hell of eating disorders The Spanish photographer's sombre and affecting photobook The Epilogue tells the story of Cammy Robinson, who died at 26 as a result of bulimiaIn 2010, Laia Abril started a project on eating disorders with a multimedia piece called A Bad Day. It looked head-on at the daily life of a girl struggling with bulimia and was a wilfully uncomfortable experience. Out of that came a self-published 'zine, Thinspiration, in which Abril documented the controversial Pro-Ana community which, in her words, "has turned anorexia (Ana) into its dogma" and where activists "venerate the illness giving meaning to their totalitarian 'lifestyle'." Continue...
Meet SUGAR BABIES: A Diabetes Film with Huge Educational Dreams Why doesn't the general public seem to care much about the diabetes epidemic? And why don't most people seem to have a clue about the difference between type 1 and type 2? This lack of recognition is one of our biggest peeves, right?Well, renown f......
Introducing ePatient Community Delegates: Merle Gleeson & Karen Graffeo With our annual Innovation Summit coming up in mid-November, it's been fun over the past several weeks sharing the stories of the PWDs selected as winners of our 2014 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Scholarship Contest. Today, we're happy to introduce......
A Funny Thing Happened As I Fell Off My Spin Bike OK, I didn't exactly fall, but it's the closest I've come since I started taking spin classes a little over a year ago...On Dec. 31, hubby and I decided to attend the "New Year's Special" combo class - 60 minutes of body conditioning followed by a......