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Meet Mike

Meet Professor Mike Riddell. Mike is the co-founder of the Physical Activity and Diabetes Unit at York University in Toronto recently visited Perth to share his research on exercise and type 1 diabetes at the Children’s Diabetes Centre Community Forum.

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Turners turn out for ENDIA Study

Australia’s largest study into the causes of type 1 diabetes reached a significant milestone when it recruited its first family in Perth with three children recently.

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CGM program gets boost

The Federal Government will widen its continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) program next month.

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Farewell Marie-Anne

After living in Perth for the past three years, Dr Marie-Anne Burckhardt has headed back home to continue her type 1 diabetes research.

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Have you got a copy of the new patient folder?

We recently launched our new and improved Children’s Diabetes Centre patient folder so don’t forget to ask for your own hard copy next time you visit the diabetes clinic at Perth Children’s Hospital.

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WA leads bid to stop young kids developing type 1

In a world-first, WA researchers are trying to stop type 1 diabetes from developing in very young children by picking up red flags before symptoms appear.

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Technology proves a gamechanger

Heidi Bucktin likes to think of her family’s life as pre and post continuous glucose monitoring – that’s how markedly different the two periods are in their journey of living with a child with type 1 diabetes.

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Communication key to successful school transition

This time last year Keira Reynolds was in a vastly different place to where she is today. Back then, the Year 6 student was coming to grips with a new type 1 diabetes diagnosis and finishing primary school, uncertain about what lay ahead at high school.

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Let's add years to kids' lives

Have you seen our recent letter about a new area of research we’d like to focus on to improve the heart health of kids with type 1 diabetes? More and more evidence is showing the importance of exercise and cardiovascular health but surprisingly there isn’t much research in this field.

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To the moon and back

Nearly six return trips to the moon — 4,612,800km — that’s the incredible distance Telethon Kid Institute’s Children’s Diabetes Centre (CDC) staff have collectively travelled to deliver specialist care to kids living with diabetes in regional Western Australia over the past 28 years.