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Improving the world of families & children living with diabetes since 2012.
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Diabetes Canada Podcast

Krista Lamb does an excellent job on the Diabetes Canada podcast, add it to your Que and enjoy. Be sure…
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The Saleem Lab

Dr. Ayesha Saleem’s lab recently received the Children’s Hospital Foundation Innovators Grant – a dragon’s den style of competition where…
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Congratulations to Dr. Vern Dolinsky & Dr. Christine Doucette

We are proud to announce that Drs. Dolinsky and Doucette were selected as Endocrine News Top 2019 Endocrine Articles for…
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Through the Microscope: Diabetes Awareness Month

Check out this short video of DREAM member Dr. Elizabeth Sellers explaining the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in youth…
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Maternal Resveratrol Administration Protects Against Gestational Diabetes-Induced Glucose Intoleranc

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a type of diabetes where high blood glucose levels first appear during pregnancy. GDM is…
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Gestational Diabetes Adversely Affects Pancreatic Islet Structure and Function in the Male Rat Offsp

The pancreas contains important structures called the islets that produce important glucose-regulating hormones, including insulin. Diabetes happens when the islets…
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Obesity isn’t simple…and simple solutions won’t work

Willows, Hanley, Delormier ,Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2012 Feb;37(1):1-13 A child’s weight depends on access to healthy foods, safe places…
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Trainee Workshop!

Diabetes Action Canada and the DREAM trainees will be hosting the Trainee Day “The Beginning, Middle and End of Patient-Oriented…
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A Holistic Approach to Risk for Early Kidney Injury in Indigenous Youth With Type 2 Diabetes: A Proo

What was our team trying to understand? Youth with type 2 diabetes (T2D) have really high rates of early kidney…
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Diabetes Action Canada Workshop “Starting the journey towards culturally safe patient-oriented rese

Diabetes Action Canada along with the DREAM research group hosted a workshop for researchers, trainees and patient partners focused on…
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DREAM highlighted in message from Norman Rosenblum, INMD Scientific Director

In November there was an Institute Advisory Board (IAB) meeting at the University of Manitoba. Drs. Brandy Wicklow and Vern…
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New Paper: Infant Feeding & Weight Gain

The latest research from Dr. Azad and the CHILD Study were published today in Pediatrics. The results show that breastfeeding…
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