The Diabetes Partner Follies: Once Upon a Time in Cape Town

Welcome back to our Diabetes Partner Follies series, in which the partners of people with diabetes (“Type 3’s” or “Type Awesomes” as some call them) share experiences of living with diabetes from their point of view.Today, the lovely wife of type …

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‘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...
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Bydureon: Changing the Paradigm for Type 2 Diabetes? The biggest thing in diabetes headlines of late is Bydureon, the first and only once-a-week drug to help type 2 diabetics keep their sugars in check, which is newly approved by the FDA. Amylin's stock price is up, and the pharma blogosphere is al......
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......