INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Building on its longtime leadership and commitment to improving diabetes care, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY - News) today announced five winners of the 2006 LillyforLife(TM) Achievement Awards. The winners include a teenage singer and actress with diabetes; a recently retired rehabilitation counselor who, though blinded by the disease, assists others with disabilities; an internationally recognized pioneer of pediatric diabetology; a devoted mother of a woman with type 1 diabetes; and a journalist with diabetes who started a successful web log (blog).