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New position to help roll out schools program

A Clinical Nurse Specialist position within Perth Children’s Hospital’s Diabetes Service has been funded as part of the Federal Government’s new Type 1 Diabetes Management in School program.

T2D now being diagnosed in children as young as six

Children as young as six years old are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, according to Perth endocrinologists who are calling for early screening of at-risk groups.

ENDIA milestone

Australia’s biggest study into the causes of type 1 diabetes recently recruited its 1500th and final participant right here in WA.

Self-efficacy groups 2020

Perth Children’s Hospital’s Diabetes Service has released the dates for its self-efficacy groups for 2020.

Would you like to test our new exercise app?

Our research team have been working with young people with type 1 diabetes to design and develop an app that contains guidelines and advice for what to do when you are being physically active.

World Diabetes Day

It may only have been a matter of months since Abby Carlon was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes but already the 10-year-old knows more than most about the condition. That’s because she’s always kept an eye out for her little sister Mia who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was three.

James' brush with fame

Did you catch the kids’ takeover Telethon segment on the weekend? If so, you may have spied James Fernihough hanging out with Ch 7 television personality Andrew Denton in the The Kids Discovery Centre.

Rockingham stalwart retires

After more than 25 years in the diabetes space, clinical nurse and credentialled diabetes educator Maxine Schlaeppi has retired.v

Donated pump a blessing for Kye

Looking at him now, it’s hard to believe busy one-year-old toddler Kye Gilbert was extremely unwell in Perth Children’s Hospital’s critical care unit with a new diagnosis of type 1 diabetes just a few months ago.

Global presence

Over the past few months, our researchers have zig-zagged the globe to share their type 1 diabetes research at major scientific meetings and conferences.