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Lucia's journey

Meet 11-year-old Lucia, who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when she was 10. Read all about her journey and how she manages her disease in her own words.

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Medical Assessments

People with type 1 diabetes require the completion of a Medical Assessment form for activities such as driving, skipper tickets and scuba-diving etc.

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Research Boost for Diabetes Team at Princess Margaret Hospital

After an intensely competitive process, the research team at Princess Margaret Hospital were awarded $5.2million from a joint JDRF/NHMRC research grant.

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Major focus for children's diabetes research in WA

Research into childhood diabetes in Perth has been given a major boost with the launch of the WA Children's Diabetes Research and Education Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) on the eve of World Diabetes Day.

Be involved

The Rio Tinto Children’s Diabetes Centre acknowledges the importance of those living with type 1 diabetes (T1D), those that care for them and the type 1 diabetes community (T1D community) in sharing your lived-experience.

App support

For app support, please email diabetes.research@health.wa.gov.au

Know the Numbers and Your HbA1c Chart

Two new resources have been created for patients — Know the Numbers and Your HbA1c Chart.

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Transcriptome analysis of recurrently deregulated genes across multiple cancers identifies new pan-cancer biomarkers

Genomewide expression profiling approach identified a comprehensive set of candidate biomarkers with pan-cancer potential

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Timing of routine infant vaccinations and risk of food allergy and eczema at one year of age

There was no overall association between delayed DTaP and food allergy; however, children with delayed DTaP had less eczema and less use of eczema medication

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Hospitalisations up to adulthood for children born with orofacial clefts

The aim of this study was to compare hospital admissions from infancy to adulthood, between children born with orofacial clefts (OFC) and those without OFC.