Manny Hernandez's Blog Posts Tagged 'JDRF' (3)

JDRF's Promise Campaign: getting the diabetes community and members of US congress together

The Promise Campaign is JDRF's most important advocacy effort. Their goal is to generate as many in-person meetings between the diabetes community and members of the US congress as possible when the members are back in their home districts.The campaign runs for 9 months from August 1 to May 1, 2012. During the last Promise Campaign, they completed 431 meetings. This time they’re shooting for 432.



The message they are communicating is focused on the artificial pancreas (AP) and the…

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Added by Manny Hernandez on July 31, 2011 at 1:12pm — 1 Comment

Meeting TuDiabetes Friends @ JDRF Walk today

Today was the JDRF Walk in SF (and other places) and, as some of you perhaps know, today also was the Hallmark Heroes shoot following the walk... there were lots of friends from the TuDiabetes family today that I had the chance of seeing again (Priscilla and… Continue

Added by Manny Hernandez on October 18, 2008 at 9:25pm — 3 Comments

The Healing Effect of Social Networks - article on "The Voice"

The newsletter titled "The Voice", published by the Bay Area chapter of JDRF will be received by chapter members this week. On it, there's an article I wrote titled "The Healing Effect of Social Networks."

You can read it here, if you want.

I am very thankful that they would let me share this story with them.

Added by Manny Hernandez on October 1, 2008 at 8:13pm — 3 Comments

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Congratulations Diabetes Advocates Scholarship Recipients!

The Diabetes Hands Foundation and Diabetes Advocates Program is proud to announce and congratulate the members of DA who were granted scholarships to attend diabetes conferences in 2013! Thanks to a generous grant from Novo Nordisk, in 2013 we were …
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La Familia de EsTuDiabetes Sigue Creciendo

El Centro Nacional de Prevención de Enfermedades Crónicas y Promoción de la Salud en el Estados Unidos encontró que a partir de 2002-2009, el 11,8% de los hispanos mayores de 20 años, que viven en los EU, viven con diabetes …
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