OTTAWA, September 26, 2024 – Research Canada is pleased to announce the 2024 Leadership in Advocacy Awardees. 2024 Leadership in Advocacy Awardee: Dr. Leena Augimeri, a Children/Youth Mental Wellness and Crime […]
Suzanne Reisler Litwin has been fundraising for JDRF, quite close to the organization’s founding and has a goal of raising $50,000 for this year’s Montreal JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes […]
JDRF provides seed funding for highly innovative research with significant potential to accelerate the most promising type 1 diabetes (T1D) research in both cures and approaches to improve disease management. […]
Like most parents after their child has been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, Cindy Voss found herself overwhelmed, anxious and exhausted. With an active 10-year old whose glucose levels would drop quickly and unexpectedly, Cindy found herself constantly worrying and would get up every couple of hours throughout the night to prick her son Mathew’s finger to get a blood sugar reading.
Halloween day will never be the same for Conrad Pow as that was the day in 2018 when his daughter Chloe was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D).
JDRF is committed to providing the T1D community with the most up-to-date and relevant information about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on those living with the disease. As […]
The first-of-its-kind index will raise awareness of the burden and unmet need of people living with type 1 diabetes around the world. JDRF, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) […]
Update: May 3, 2021: Ontario: As of May 10, 2021 anyone over 16 with type 1 diabetes can book a vaccine throughout the province. Alberta: Children aged 12 -15 with type 1 […]
On June 28th, 2021 endurance athlete and JDRF ambassador Sébastien Sasseville took on his greatest challenge yet. A commitment to ride a bicycle across Canada in support of universal access […]
Almost four in ten Canadians (38%) surveyed, who have been clinically diagnosed with a chronic disease, say they are avoiding the health care system altogether during the pandemic.
January 23, 2022 is the 100th anniversary of the first successful insulin injection for diabetes in a human. Prior to this, a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (T1D) meant certain […]
JDRF’s #AccessForAll advocacy campaign aims to make type 1 diabetes (T1D) technology affordable and accessible for all Canadians living with the disease. With support from the T1D community, JDRF seeks […]
