Temple sophomore Emily Hooven says there is too much secrecy surrounding diabetes. For a class assignment, she and two classmates started Diabetes Diaries, a channel on the video-sharing website YouTube. Anyone can go online and share their fears, hopes or experience with the disease. "We hope that the website will offer some sort of release for these people, so they can finally just talk about it," she said. Kathya Zinszer of Temple’s School of Podiatric Medicine says support and encouragement from peers are just as important as proper medical care. "I think that it's going to put a different face on diabetes," she said.

Diabetes Diaries can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/user/DiabetesDiaries.