JDRF - Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Please note that this story deals with the diagnosis of a common diabetes health complication in a 24-year-old man who has type 1 diabetes - Ed.

Not many people have heard this story – until now. Of course my loved ones know that I have type 1 diabetes, but knowing I also have diabetes complications was something I did not wish for them.

It was June 1^st 2009, four days before my 24^th birthday, when the Ophthalmology Department at my nearest hospital told me I could be blind in two years or less. I will never forget that moment.

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Natalie, 24, has 12 years of life with type 1 diabetes behind her and a wonderful adventure ahead. In July she will join her family to embark on the challenge of a lifetime: climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

Natalie shares her story and her reasons for supporting Team Cure Diabetes. Read more about Team Cure Diabetes, a virtual team of passionate people who are tackling exciting challenges to raise funds and awareness for type 1 diabetes and support JDRF.

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54 year old Malcolm says it’s important to stay on top of type 1 diabetes (or it will ‘bite you on the bum’) and this month he is taking a somewhat unconventional approach to diabetes management by choosing to jump out of a plane. Malcolm is taking part in JDRF’s newest event, the Jump to Cure Diabetes.

With a busy job in Adelaide managing several Adelaide Advertiser publications, Malcolm has scant time for unnecessary activities. His diabetes management routine is finely controlled but still subject to those occasional lapses that make us human.

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Researchers from the Garvan Institute in Sydney have found a drug that may remove the need for immunosuppression following islet transplantation.

The JDRF-funded researchers developed a ‘reagent’ or chemical agent that allowed mice with diabetes to accept donor cells from an islet transplantation as their own, with no need for immunosuppressive drugs.

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