The latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology features a paper by Dr. Valeria Rac and her team: Tele-retina screening of diabetic retinopathy among at-risk populations: an economic analysis. The paper compares this Diabetes Action Canada program against other standard of care programs in rural and under-screened communities. Dr. Rac and her team found […]

When Virtue Bajurny was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes a few months before her sixteenth birthday, she was the only young person in the diabetes program at the hospital in Etobicoke where she was treated. That meant taking her diabetes education classes amongst older adults and seniors, all of whom were living with type 2 […]

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] In May, the Diabetes Action Canada Knowledge Translation Research Program launched its second Knowledge Translation Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition. A total of five applications were received and evaluated by researchers and Patient Partners. This year, the Knowledge Translation Program granted two doctoral fellowships, of 19,000/year for one year, and one postdoctoral fellowship […]

Diabetes Canada held its annual Professional Conference in Winnipeg Manitoba on October 2nd – Oct 5th, 2019.  Diabetes Action Canada once again kicked off the event by hosting a pre-conference trainee day.  This was the most successful Trainee Day yet with 29 attendees.  We as an opportunity to connect with one of our Diabetes Action […]

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] How do we know the number of people living with diabetes in a province? Is that number going up or down? Are people living with type 2 diabetes more or less likely to have a heart attack after they turn 50? Does a person with type 1 diabetes using an insulin pump have […]

  That Dr. Charles de Mestral spent the morning before our interview at Queen’s Park advocating for improved wound care for people with diabetes in Ontario should not be surprising. The researcher and vascular surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital has become a passionate voice for the need to stem the tide of amputations related to […]

  Que le Dr Charles de Mestral ait passé la matinée précédant notre entrevue à Queen’s Park, à promouvoir des soins améliorés des plaies pour les personnes vivant avec le diabète en Ontario ne devrait pas être surprenant. En effet, le chercheur et chirurgien vasculaire à l’Hôpital St. Michael s’est fait le porte-parole passionné de la nécessité d’endiguer la vague d’amputations […]

  The latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology features a paper from Diabetes Action Canada researcher Dr. Valeria Rac looking at the economic analysis of the tele-retina screening program for diabetic retinopathy. Dr. Rac and her team concluded that this program is a more cost-effective means of screening for diabetic retinopathy than the […]