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Work, luck and love help him live long with type 1 diabetes

Lake Fong / Post-Gazette

Joseph Lafferty, of Brookline, has had type 1 diabetes for 63 years and now is 84 years old.

Living with type 1 diabetes can be a daily grind that sometimes can turn into a real health-care adventure. Which describes the past 63 years for Joseph L. ... (04/09/2008)

Adventurer with diabetes prepares for another mountain climb

Brad Clement/Spindrift Films

Mount Everest looms behind Will Cross during a 2004 attempt to scale the world's highest peak.

Tomorrow, a Pittsburgh adventurer with type 1 diabetes will embark on his next challenge: scaling Lhotse, the world's fourth-highest mountain. ... (03/31/2008)

Diabetes

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Diabetes institutes launched nationwide with Pitt as model

There's always hope that good ideas will spawn action and change. ... (03/24/2008)

Doctors exploring potential of genetic research in diabetes

Doctors long have known that diabetes is hereditary. But recent human genome research provides an instructional manual on the causes and health impacts of the disease. ... (03/19/2008)

Pitt study focuses on enzyme benefits

Exactly how cells function has long puzzled biologists, preventing them from fully understanding and treating various metabolic conditions and diseases. ... (03/13/2008)

Mountain climbs make a molehill of diabetes

Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette

Will Cross hasn't let Type 1 diabetes prevent him from being an adventurer.

Will Cross has skied to the North and South poles and scaled the highest peaks on seven continents, including Mount Everest. But he isn't your average adventurer. ... (02/04/2008)

New diabetes cases The number of new cases of diabetes diagnosed since Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007:

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