📢 November is Diabetes Awareness Month!
At FHC - Diabetes Prevention and Management Teams support those living with or at risk for diabetes with high-quality interdisciplinary care and education.
More info on our specialized Diabetes programs here: https://t.co/Ezp52vY7CC
What action will you take this November for #DiabetesAwarenessMonth?
-Learn and raise awareness about this serious condition
-Assess risk and have your A1C tested
-Learn how to how to live well with diabetes and prediabetes
More info at https://t.co/aqiTPpYvrO
“Before insulin, diabetes was a death sentence,” Rutty said.
"Insulin almost literally resurrected the dead, since people were rising from diabetic comas.” https://t.co/udg5ud8dL2
#WorldDiabetesDay - On 14 Nov 1921, Banting & Best presented research which led to the successful use of #insulin. 100 years on, an estimated 70 million people with #diabetes who need insulin cannot access or afford it. This much change. #IfNotNowWhen https://t.co/juiQwrA5qz
On Nov. 14, 1921, Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best presented the results of months of diabetes experiments to the University of Toronto’s Journal Club. The pair had discovered an “active pancreatic extract” that would come to be known as insulin. https://t.co/xsHtOsuZK6
November is Diabetes Awareness Month. Dr. Jeremy Gilbert, an endocrinologist at @Sunnybrook hospital, said the “rates of diabetes are rising significantly” in Canada and worldwide. https://t.co/w5paZFqanZ
#DiabetesAwarenessMonth
Life doesn’t stop for diabetes. The discovery of insulin 100 years ago was a game-changer, but it’s not a cure. We can’t wait another 100 years to #EndDiabetes. To connect with our Toronto Central Regional Diabetes programs please visit: https://t.co/Q9lQt2SL6O