mybcd Archives - BCDiabetes

Patient advocacy works! CRA reverses policy on Disability Tax Credit for Type 1 diabetes

Dr. Tom Elliott — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:31:00 +0000

On Oct 12 BCDiabetes blogged on the CRA Disability Tax Credit as it applied to Type 1 diabetes and how the CRA had moved the goalposts: see Type 1 Diabetes sucks but dont ask the CRA for sympathy. Good news – the CRA has reversed its policy: so it is back to the old rules […]

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Compassionate Diabetes Care

Dr. Tom Elliott — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:10:58 +0000

At BCDiabetes we are aware that the challenges for individuals living with diabetes are many – that it’s not as simple as eating less, exercising more, testing your blood and taking medication. Recent research at BCDiabetes has shown that at the time of referral to a diabetes specialist patients exhibit a high level of distress […]

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95 Years of Insulin & Embracing the Tech Era

Dr. Tom Elliott — Wed, 03 May 2017 20:27:16 +0000

Today marks the 95th anniversary of the first use of the word insulin by its Canadian discovers Dr. Frederick Banting and medical student Charles Best. Four months earlier they had saved the life of 14 year old Leonard Thompson by injecting him with a pancreatic extract (containing insulin) taken from a dog. A year later Banting […]

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