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DRI Foundation Named to “Top 100” Charity List

DRI Foundation Named to “Top 100” Charity List

Miami, FL (December, 2007) -- The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation has been named to the list of “The 100 Highly Rated Charities” by GiveSpot.com, a website dedicated to providing donors with useful information for their charitable giving. The charities selected...

Diabetes Research Institute Presents 5th World of Hope Conference

Diabetes Research Institute Presents 5th World of Hope Conference

Hollywood, FL (October 2007) -- The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation announced today that First American Title Insurance Corporation has kindly signed on as the presenting sponsor of the 5th A World of Hope Conference, a research update for people with type 1...

Comedian George Lopez will “Stand up for a Cure”

Comedian George Lopez will “Stand up for a Cure”

Los Angeles, CA (September 11, 2007) –- Featuring a hilarious performance by George Lopez, one of the premier comedic talents in the entertainment industry today, Stand Up for a Cure will be held at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles on Sunday, November 4th at...

DRI Invention Promotes Increase in Insulin Producing Cells

DRI Invention Promotes Increase in Insulin Producing Cells

Parts of the "oxygen sandwich" -- a device that helps deliver much-needed oygen to cells in the laboratory. Miami, FL (August 30, 2007) -- One of the major challenges to islet cell transplantation as the treatment of choice for type 1 diabetes is the shortage of donor...

Diabetes Research Institute Presents 5th World of Hope Conference

New Group Helps Parents Empower Parents after Diabetes Diagnosis

Hollywood, FL (July 2007) -- Each and every parent of a child with diabetes can remember the day their child was diagnosed with this disease. Emotions ran the gamut of shock, despair, guilt and anger. There was so much to learn. Few really understood how a diabetes...

Diabetes Research Institute Launches New Drug Discovery Initiative

Diabetes Research Institute Launches New Drug Discovery Initiative

If transplant tolerance can be achieved with local immunosuppression in an implanted device (figure on the left), then the likelihood of serious systemic side effects and the susceptibility for opportunistic infections can be avoided. Also, much smaller doses are...

Diabetes Research Institute Presents 5th World of Hope Conference

Information for People Who are Treated with Avandia

Miami, FL (May 2007) -- The recent news about Avandia increasing the risk of heart attack and death due to heart disease and stroke comes from a look back at 42 published research studies in which Avandia had been tested in comparison with either a dummy drug to show...

Dr. Camillo Ricordi Named Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Dr. Camillo Ricordi Named Distinguished Professor of Medicine

Miami, FL (May 25, 2007) -- Camillo Ricordi, M.D., scientific director and chief academic officer of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, has been appointed a Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the...

BRAVO! Brands Teams up with Diabetes Research Institute Foundation

BRAVO! Brands Teams up with Diabetes Research Institute Foundation

TM & © Mars, Inc. used under license. Like its namesake, 3 MUSKETEERS® Slammers Chocolate Milk has alight and fluffy taste. NORTH PALM BEACH, Fla. (January 03, 2007) -- Bravo! Brands Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BRVO-News) and the Diabetes Research Institute...

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