Her Own Hero: Local Teen Fights for a Cure to Diabetes
Kenny volunteers regularly with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in Nov. of 1999 when she was only 22 months old. Type 1 Diabetes is a chronic disease that does not have a cure. …
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Question by thesoccerchick87: How can we find local diabetes or cancer foundations to donate to?
We would like to donate money in someone’s name, to a cancer foundation or diabetes foundation or something along those lines. Unfortunately, everyone wants to go online these days and we do not want to donate to a foundation over the internet, we would like to do it in person and have a proof of donation (I know that there are printable ones if you donate online, but that requires giving someone your credit card number). So is there any way to locate local places to donate? We live in West/Southwest Michigan.

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Answer by johiki2
Can I suggest a non profit Childrens Hospital in your area. The one in my state is really great in working with children with Diabetes. Also check with Cancer Treatments of America also. They have several accross the country.

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We would like to donate money in someone’s name, to a cancer foundation or diabetes foundation or something along those lines. Unfortunately, everyone wants to go online these days and we do not want to donate to a foundation over the internet, we would like to do it in person and have a proof of donation (I know that there are printable ones if you donate online, but that requires giving someone your credit card number). So is there any way to locate local places to donate? We live in West/Southwest Michigan.

Surgery effective for some type 2 diabetes patients
Surgery is a legitimate and effective treatment for type 2 diabetes, affirm 50 medical experts from around the world in a first-of-its-kind consensus statement that should help bring the procedure a significant step closer to wider use and acceptance.

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Diabetes death rate higher for poor
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PAYETTE — When Paige Gabiola was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes, she didn’t think of it as her life coming to a hault, she looked at as a challenge.

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