Alcohol is the most commonly used recreational drug in Australia and is consumed to varying degrees in a multitude of social and cultural settings. It...

People with diabetes have a higher prevalence of wounds due to suboptimally managed glucose levels, ischaemia, neuropathy, pressure, friction,...

Although traditionally associated with children and originally referred to as “juvenile diabetes”, new research shows that onset of type 1 diabetes...

Overweight and obesity are increasingly prevalent conditions that impact significantly on individual morbidity and mortality, as well as on the...

Diabetes rates have escalated within the last three decades to affect 1.2 million Australians ¹. It is no coincidence that within this same...

The Diabetes in Schools Program is a Government-funded National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) initiative that aims to develop a nationally consistent...

More than 80% of Australian adolescents aged 14-17 years own a smartphone, and  are frequent users of phone apps¹. Increasingly, children...

One year ago I started do-it-yourself (DIY) looping with the hybrid closed loop system, OpenAPS¹. I’d been living with type 1 diabetes...

If asked, many parents would be likely to agree that inheriting the “worry gene” is almost a rite of passage when having children. However, parents...