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As we wrap up Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week, I reflect on the greatest blessing of all in my IBD journey: my caregivers, my dear mother and husband. From the constant rides into the city for doctors’ visits to packing wounds and changing PICC line dressings while helping me walk ...

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais NinDueing December 1-7 is Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness week, and as an IBD Warrior, it is an important to take a pause and look at REAL life with a silent, incurable illness. There is no question that is hard, but ...

If you follow me on Instagram, @type1livabetic, you’ll see that I was recently sent to Chicago for work, thanks to Xeris Pharmaceuticals. On this trip we reviewed a brand-new product for the Type 1 Diabetic community, which I will discuss further in a separate blog later on. This was a very...

The award will be presented to the Patient Entrepreneur demonstrating outstanding science and potential to bring their idea to the market for cancer patients LUGANO, SWITZERLAND, AND NEW YORK, NY, NOV 27: Helsinn, a Swiss pharmaceutical group focused on building quality cancer care, announced ...

Happy Thanksgiving, Today we want to give thanks to our FamilyForLyfe, the friends and families who support all of us living with chronic disease! Our health and happiness are owed both to the incredible resilience in ourselves as well as the love, care, and support of our loved ones. I have ...

  NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Lyfebulb, a chronic disease-focused, patient-empowerment platform that connects patients with industry and investors to support user-driven innovation, announced it is joining forces with Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) to launch Addressing Unmet Needs ...

This will be a bit different from my usual blogs, but this month, November, we come together as a community in support of National Diabetes Awareness Month. I wanted to take this “blog” of mine and use it as a way to educate and have it ask you three very important questions to better improve...

Hi guys! For those who don’t know me, I’m Bia, I’ve had type 1 diabetes for 18 years and my birthday is on Halloween. Yes, October 31th. 😀 I love this date! For me, it’s the best day of the year not just for being my birthday, but it gets even more special because ...

One thing that we often times struggle with as Type 1 Diabetics is the stress and anxiety that is presented to us by our blood sugar readings. As hard as we may try, the number that is shown on our blood glucometer gets to us and makes us react in a certain way. It can be hard as a Diabetic as ...

Autoimmune diseases such as MS, Rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis all have the basic problem where the individual’s immune system turns against itself as opposed to fighting the outside world. Something beyond the genetic set up is needed to trigger the disease ...