Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In a sprawling, empty bay of the massive Sanford Center on Saturday, about 3,500 walkers did what they could as lay people to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, the form of the disease most often diagnosed in children.
Their participation in the 14th annual fundraising walk was a show of support for kids and their families afflicted with type 1 diabetes, and the event had an ambitious goal of raising $315,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. That is about $15,000 more than last year?s walk raised, according to Jolene Loetscher of the South Dakota chapter of the diabetes foundation.
Elsewhere in the Sanford Center, medical researchers are making the dreams of Saturday?s walkers come tantalizingly close to reality. They are conducting a clinical trial with 57 patients using a regimen of two drugs. In combination, the drugs might reverse the effects of the disease and allow people afflicted with type 1 diabetes to control it for a lifetime.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/...iabetes-walk-represents-few-steps-closer-cure
Good turnout and a lot of money raised! 🙂
Their participation in the 14th annual fundraising walk was a show of support for kids and their families afflicted with type 1 diabetes, and the event had an ambitious goal of raising $315,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. That is about $15,000 more than last year?s walk raised, according to Jolene Loetscher of the South Dakota chapter of the diabetes foundation.
Elsewhere in the Sanford Center, medical researchers are making the dreams of Saturday?s walkers come tantalizingly close to reality. They are conducting a clinical trial with 57 patients using a regimen of two drugs. In combination, the drugs might reverse the effects of the disease and allow people afflicted with type 1 diabetes to control it for a lifetime.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/...iabetes-walk-represents-few-steps-closer-cure
Good turnout and a lot of money raised! 🙂