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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes UK is today (Friday, January 10) celebrating its 80th birthday.
It is exactly 80 years since the writer H.G. Wells and the doctor R.D. Lawrence, who both had diabetes, founded the charity to provide support for people with the condition.
One of our main aims in our early days was to ensure everyone with diabetes who needed insulin was able to access it for free, and today we continue to campaign for better healthcare for people with diabetes and to fund more research to better understand the condition.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News_Landing_Page/Diabetes-UK-celebrates-its-80th-birthday/
It is exactly 80 years since the writer H.G. Wells and the doctor R.D. Lawrence, who both had diabetes, founded the charity to provide support for people with the condition.
One of our main aims in our early days was to ensure everyone with diabetes who needed insulin was able to access it for free, and today we continue to campaign for better healthcare for people with diabetes and to fund more research to better understand the condition.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/News_Landing_Page/Diabetes-UK-celebrates-its-80th-birthday/