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Thursday, March 2, 2006

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Juvenile Diabetes
With incidences of Juvenile Diabetes exploding across America - and especially in Ohio - ideas examines the daily effort diabetics have to out forth to ensure survival. We look at the disease through the eyes of an 11-year-old Rocky River girl, who explains how it impacts her and her family's lives. Then we'll hear from the leading Diabetic expert at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital about the efforts being made to control, and eventually cure, Type 1 Diabetes.

Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital's website.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International's website.
MedlinePlus information on Type 1 Diabetes.
Diabetes information, and to find out if you are at risk: Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland.
HealthSpace Cleveland and Diabetes Day at HealthSpace Cleveland this weekend (Saturday, March 4)

Multicultural Business Center
The closing of steel and auto plants in Lorain hit the local economy hard. While some mourn the collapse of big industry, a new group says it's better to think small. ideastream's David C. Barnett takes us on a tour of the Multicultural Business Center.

Kidney Transplant Wait
Waiting. That's how 17 Americans die every day. They die because they can't wait any longer for an organ transplant and nearly 70% of all organs needed are by kidney patients. For more information about kidney health and transplantation visit:

The National Kidney Foundation
The American Association of Kidney Patients
The Kidney Patient Guide, an online service for kidney patients and those who care for them

The Graying of Cleveland's Teachers
Are the Cleveland Municipal Schools suffering from brain drain? Years of budget cuts and teacher layoffs have left the district with a majority of its teachers beyond the age of 50. A major investigation into this was published in the latest edition of Catalyst Cleveland. It found that the graying of Cleveland’s teacher pool has robbed the district’s 65,000 students of both energy and many of new ideas that younger teachers bring to the job. Catalyst Cleveland Associated Editor Stephanie Klupinski, who wrote the stories, talked with ideastream’s Dan Moulthrop - see that conversation on Ideas.

Catalyst Cleveland

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