This compelling new book, free to you when you enroll to receive your diabetic testing supplies from the Diabetic Alliance, is co-authored by award-winning diabetes journalist Amy Tenderich and Dr. Richard Jackson, MD, Acting Head of the Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics at the Joslin Diabetes Center.

About the Book
This first-ever guide to 5 crucial tests that everyone living with diabetes needs to have and monitor has been hailed by critics as a must-read. In the book, Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard University professor Dr. Richard Jackson and diabetes patient/expert and LillyForLife™ award-winning blogger/journalist Amy Tenderich will walk you through how to:

• Understand each of these factors
• Determine which are the most important for you to focus on (based on your family history and other risk factors)
• Create a personalized treatment plan for optimum blood-glucose control, heart health, and general diabetes management and well-being

About the Authors

Richard Jackson, MD, is Acting Head of the Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Director of the Hood Center for the Prevention of Childhood Diabetes at Joslin, Senior Physician at the Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a former Mary K. Iacocca Fellow and recipient of the Cookie Pierce Research Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He lives in Brookline, MA.

Amy Tenderich, a professional journalist with an MA in communication studies, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in May 2003. Almost instantly, she began to tell it like it is on her own diabetes blog ( www.DiabetesMine.com), for which she recently received the LillyforLife Achievement Award™ for diabetes journalism. She and her family live just south of San Francisco. Read articles by Amy in our Article Library