The team set off cycling from London’s Crystal Palace on a gloomy friday morning and were celebrating under the Eiffel Tower in Paris on the Sunday afternoon raising over £12,000 for JDRF in the process. Thanks to everyone for supporting and sponsoring us.
Nigel Added a couple more video’s of us actually cycling rather than just enjoying ourselves! Sorry about the lack of sound on the first one – sort it out Nige!!
JDRF recently met with Adrian Sanders MP, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Torbay. Mr Sanders agreed to put down an Early Day Motion for JDRF in order to increase awareness and understanding about type 1 diabetes.
Early Day Motions provide a formal mechanism for MPs to raise issues in the House of Commons. You can see the text of the motion here. Please get in contact with your MP and ask them to sign EDM 122 and give their support for this motion.
You can find your MP by clicking here.
Scientists have some evidence that a molecule called C-peptide may help prevent some of the cardiovascular complications that people with diabetes are at risk from.
Researchers from the University of Leeds found that a naturally occurring substance, C-peptide, may Read the rest of this entry »
The drug otelixizumab appears to halt the rapid decline in the body’s production of insulin, according to a recent study published in the journal ‘Diabetologia’. This rapid decline of insulin production occurs in people with Type 1 diabetes due to an auto-immune response.
The drug works by switching off the immune system’s self-destruct mechanism that causes Read the rest of this entry »
Regretfully we have had to postpone the Disco and Auction planned at Wimborne Football Club however we will be placing the Auction items on the website here for online bidding.
Please check back regularly for further details.
Thanks to everyone who supported the Linedancing fundraiser on 23rd April.
Over 200 people came along and we raised over £1300 for JDRF
Hats off in particular to “Pig Tail Davie” for the organising (looking too comfortable in that hat Dave!) and to Karl Winson for hosting the evening for free.
Photos of the event can be seen on our facebook page by clicking here
Looking forward to the next fundraiser which is an auction and disco at Wimborne Football Club on 22nd May
7 year old Niamh Bridger was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes aged 2. Along with her mother Trisha, she talks on ITV’s this morning show about living with the condition.
Click here to see the interview.
Trisha has written a book “Why can’t I fly?” and for every book sold she is donating £1 to Diabetes UK
You can buy the book here
May 5
Crusaders Against Diabetes can now be found on facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Crusaders-Against-Diabetes/325663805973
Article in the Daily Mail By Judy Hobson
on 13th April 2010
Angela Wise is one of the first to use a new sensor-controlled insulin pump
She was saved by the bell after a long country walk sent her into a diabetic coma.
She is one of the first to use a new sensor-controlled insulin pump that detects dangerously low levels of blood sugar and sets off a deafening alarm.
Angela, 48, a financial services trainer from Harrogate, Yorkshire, has had Type 1 diabetes since she was 18.
She says: ‘My husband Dennis and I had been out walking. I sat down for a cup of tea Read the rest of this entry »
JDRF is working with SmartCells, Inc., a biotech company based in the USA, on a new type of insulin treatment for people with type 1 diabetes.
The new approach involves using a plant-derived protein that can bind and release insulin in response to glucose levels.
The theory is that SmartInsulin could be formulated so that people with type 1 diabetes would only need to inject the drug once each day, as opposed to the multiple daily injections they need currently. Once injected, the molecules would ‘stick together’, only releasing insulin when blood sugar levels rise above a certain threshold, and stopping when these levels fall again. In this way it, should be possible Read the rest of this entry »