National Diabetes Week highlights

It’s a shocking statistic. More than 300 Australians, or one person every five minutes, develops diabetes every day.

Think about that: one person every five minutes.

And the number of diagnoses is multiplying daily. Currently, almost 1.9 million Australians have diabetes and close to 120,000 Australians have developed diabetes in the past year.

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July 14th, 2023
 

Australian Diabetes Congress 2022 turns the spotlight on the latest breakthroughs

The Australian Diabetes Congress 2022 once again brought to light the effects of diabetes on the health system, but there were positives in the latest breakthroughs in research, education and clinical care.

The national Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS) recorded 118,800 and over 119,000 new registrants between March 2020–2021 and March 2021–2022 – the highest recorded number of any 12-month period.

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September 30th, 2022
 

Why investing in biotech could help improve society … and make you money

Healthcare innovation has made great strides in the past few decades.

From cancer treatments to stem cell breakthroughs, 3D printed organs and even face transplants (not the Nicholas Cage-John Travolta Face-Off kind), science is moving in leaps and bounds and setting trends that most of us thought were science fiction just a few short years ago.

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November 23rd, 2021
 

Health at Every Size® (HAES®) what does this mean?

If you are reading this article, I imagine you have recently been diagnosed with insulin resistance (IR), pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes (T2D) or possibly told to lose weight. My name is Megan Roberts and as an Accredited Practising Dietitian what if I told you to forget about weight despite your recent diagnosis.

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November 23rd, 2021
 

The rising global prevalence of diabetes

As the Covid-19 pandemic dominated the headlines over the past year, the fact that the number of people living with — and dying from — diabetes has continued to rise has gone rather unnoticed.

Diabetes or its complications were responsible for the death of 6.7 million people worldwide in 2021, that’s one death every five seconds. Maybe surprisingly, there were more diabetes related deaths in 2021 than the 5.1 million registered global Covid-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.

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November 23rd, 2021