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Greetings!
Season's greetings and welcome to the final edition of Yada Yada for 2012!
This time of year is often spent reminiscing about the past 12 months, wondering where it went, and looking forward with a sense of hopeful expectation to the year ahead when we will definitely keep our New Year's resolutions this time. Or you may be spending time on frantic, last-minute shopping.
At T1DN we're proud of what we achieved this year. 2013 is going to be just as big and, we hope, just as good. We're excited and looking forward to it!
 
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Our year in review
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2012 was another successful year for T1DN.
Our President's Report for the year is now up on our website and contains a great summary of all the things we were involved in this year including:
- Setting up an expert advisory group to give us specialist advice when we need it
- Advocating on projects such as the Austroads' Assessing Fitness to Drive guidelines on diabetes and driving and conducting a survey on private health insurance and pumps
- Starting a social media team that now has an active presence on Facebook and Twitter (@T1DN)
- Launching a webinar series; the first two have received great feedback, and a third will be run in February
- Representing the voice of people with type 1 at national conferences and other key opportunities.
We've had some fantastic volunteers come on board this year and we'd like to thank everyone who volunteered any of their time and effort to help out with T1DN - without your support this organisation wouldn't exist. We'd also like to thank all of you in the type 1 community who inspire and motivate us: our Yada readers, forum participants on Reality Check and Munted Pancreas, friends, family members, health professionals, and everyone out there living with type 1.
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Australian Diabetes Social Media Summit
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World Diabetes Day (November 14) saw the first Australian Diabetes Social Media Summit held in Melbourne hosted by Diabetes Australia - Victoria. This event was timely given our recent foray back into the social media world.
The summit brought together influential people from the Australian "Diabetes Online Community" who discussed the fast evolving world social media. The summit featured American keynote speaker Kerri Sparling who writes the popular six until me blog. Kerri was one of the first people to blog about her diabetes and her presentation produced enormous energy about the possibilities of social media to connect people living with type 1 diabetes.
T1DN was represented by Matt Cameron, who is involved in our social media activities. Matt noted the opportunity for collaboration that social media brings as it "provides a mechanism for us to better share the work we do, and to be aware of what other organisations are doing." An example of this is how social media has produced significant discussion regarding the activities that organisations are doing in regards to the driving and diabetes issue.
Fingerpricker, Bittersweet Diagnosis, Angela Mellon and six until me all wrote their own reports of the summit - it's definitely worth checking out their perspectives.
If you want to get involved in the diabetes online community, you might be interested in other Australian diabetes blogs: Diabetogenic, Lazy pancreas, 1type1, Simon from the 70s and Insulin pumps need tetris. New diabetes blog posts are often tweeted about using the #OzDBlog hash tag; if you are planning on starting a blog, please let us know via our twitter page @T1DN. |
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10 Downing Street lit blue for WDD
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World Diabetes Day inspired events around the world aimed at increasing awareness of diabetes. Part of this was some spectacular landmarks being lit blue, including the London Eye, Empire State Building, the Water Cube in Beijing and the Royal Opera House in Denmark.
IDF has a complete list of the monuments that turned blue for WDD and has photos from previous years on Flickr; this year's images haven't been uploaded as yet, but keep an eye out as they're sure to be something special.
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T1DN's webinar series continues in February 2013
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Our webinar series has already had two great speakers, and we've received some really positive feedback. One of the most rewarding aspects of offering webinars is that people anywhere in the world can join in - we have already had participants in Korea and Denmark!
The series will continue with our third webinar on 4 February at 8 p.m. AEDT. Dietitian Sally Marchini will be the guest speaker. Sally has type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease and will be talking about some of the challenges of managing these two conditions.
Roger Hanney, the guest speaker at our November webinar, and his Born to Run team mates, have just completed another ultra-marathon - this time in Antarctica, which is simply incredible. The Born to Run team is the first team ever to complete the 4 Deserts tournament. Roger has posted a trip report on the Born to Run website, which also has blogs from the other team members. Top stuff guys!
Don't forget we also live-tweet our webinars via our twitter page - @T1DN. |
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Pancreas stem cells transformed into insulin-producing cells
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On World Diabetes Day, Australian researchers announced that they had isolated stem cells from the pancreas of adult mice and converted them into insulin-producing cells. These cells were then transplanted back into the mice, where they continued to produce insulin.
The use of adult stem cells (not those from embryos) is very exciting as it opens up the possibility of using cells from a diabetic person's own pancreas to restart insulin production. This would be a vast improvement over the only current option of pancreatic transplant.
Even if this research can be successfully transferred to humans, it is not a cure by itself as it does not prevent the immune system from attacking the new insulin-producing cells. However, there is potential to use it in combination with research into slowing or stopping the immune attack that we have covered in previous Yadas. This isn't necessarily going to bring a cure within the "five to ten years" many of us were told at diagnosis by well-meaning doctors, but these steps forward are keeping us hopeful.
The full text of the original journal article is available from PLOS One. Warning: Very technical!
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Quick shots
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Hot topics on the Reality Check online forum include:
On Munted Pancreas, parents of kids with D are discussing:
You can keep up to date with what's going on in the diabetes world by following us on Facebook or Twitter.
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We hope 2012 was a great year for you and that you have a chance over the holiday season to spend time with family and friends. We look forward to continuing to bring you Yada Yada next year!
 If you're looking for something light-hearted over the holidays, check out the memes at Type 1 Diabetes Memes. Some of them certainly live up to the cliché that 'it's funny because it's true'.
Don't forget you can always send us your feedback and comments by replying to this email. See you next time!
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