Diabetes Cure

Tools

By Arianne Rapkoch

Story Published: Jan 10, 2008 at 7:28 PM MST

Story Updated: Jan 11, 2008 at 7:32 AM MST

BILLINGS - It's estimated that 1 in 3 children born today will develop diabetes some time in their life. That's why Senator Max Baucus came to Billings Clinic Thursday morning.
He told the crowd of diabetes patients and doctors that he is working to get more federal dollars for diabetes research. Representatives from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation also presented the senator with an award for his efforts. Senator Baucus says, "My heart goes out to anyone who has diabetes. The pain and suffering they go though is unbelievable, and I'm going to do all I can to find a cure."
Pam Hoffman, whose daughter has Type 1 Diabetes, says, "It's really frustrating. You spend all day everyday trying to balance blood sugars basically. You have to count carbohydrates. Everything that goes into Bailey's mouth we have to count."
Senator Baucus included extra money for diabetes research in a Medicare bill that will go back to the senate floor this year.

Add a comment

Name:

Comment: 1000 Characters Left

KULR-8 News, Sports, Weather and its affiliated companies are not responsible for the content of comments posted or for anything arising out of use of the above comments or other interaction among the users. We reserve the right to screen, refuse to post, remove or edit user-generated content at any time and for any or no reason in our absolute and sole discretion without prior notice, although we have no duty to do so or to monitor any Public Forum.

Your Weather Authority

Icon
Current Temp 31.0 °F
Fair
Wind : Southeast at
5.8 mph
Humidity : 67 %
Pressure : 30.41 in
More Weather

Party America Sky Cam

More Weather

On Demand

YouNews

This content requires the latest Adobe Flash Player and a browser with JavaScript enabled. Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player.

Links We Like