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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We’re super excited to welcome Dr Amelia Harray to our research team. Amelia looks forward to strengthening the focus on food research to help children with type 1 diabetes and their families.

Perth Children's Hospital's upcoming diabetes self-efficacy group has availability for children with type 1 diabetes aged five to 10 years.

Our exercise researcher Wayne Soon talks about why he became a diabetes researcher in The West Australian's ED! liftout, published August 20.