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Eli Lilly and Company announced it intends to donate more than 800,000 vials of insulin to the International diabetes Federation's Life for a Child Program, providing free life-saving medicine to as many as 24,000 children who currently have no access to diabetes treatment. The initial focus of the donations will be to help children with diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa.

Eli Lilly and Company today announced it intends to donate more than 800,000 vials of insulin to the International diabetes Federation's Life for a Child Program, providing free life-saving medicine to as many as 24,000 children who currently have no access to diabetes treatment. The initial focus of the donations will be to help children with diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa.

Cherie L. Stabler, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and director of the tissue engineering program at the diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of medicine, is one of only ten scientists across the country to win the Type 1 Diabetes Pathfinder Award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Hot on the heels of a new supercomputer, plans for a new light-speed data line between the Translational Genomics Research Institute and Arizona State University could slash the time is takes to transfer genetic information. Accelerating the flow of information could help speed discoveries that eventually could help produce treatments and cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, autism, diabetes and various cancers.

Schools across the country now have free access to an innovative set of teaching tools designed to increase the understanding of science, health, and diabetes among American Indian and Alaska Native students from kindergarten through the 12th grade. The comprehensive new curriculum, called "Health is Life in Balance," was launched at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

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