The best diabetes social networking site out there, TuDiabetes.com, is now over 1000 strong!

They also released numerous updates to the software to add better features and user collaboration/tracking.

On TuDiabetes you can find and be friends with diabetics from all over the world, interact in groups and message forums, add video’s/photos, take part in the integrated chat room and a ton more!

If you haven’t been there yet, head on over to http://tudiabetes.com/ now and check it out. You’ll be meeting amazing people in no time

It is really an excellent way to get additional diabetic support, increase your own diabetes awareness and get answers to diabetes related questions. Congratulations Manny!

Promising diabetes research news coming from Canada and Philadelphia:

Pediatrics researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and McGill University in Montreal have identified a gene variant that raises a child’s risk for type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes. As investigators continue to pinpoint genes contributing to diabetes, they have their eyes on providing a scientific basis for designing better treatments and preventive measures for the disease.