Gary Sacks, Deakin University There are renewed calls for the Australian government to implement a range of measures aimed at improving our diets. These include restrictions on junk food advertising, improvements to food labelling, and a levy on sugary drinks. ...

Nurses at Fairfield Hospital in Sydney have trialled the use of an app that can help cut the number of clinical appointments needed for pregnant women with gestational diabetes (GDM). Jenny Wright, diabetes clinical nurse consultant at Fairfield Hospital, found that ...

University of Queensland researchers have found that the key to preventing Type 1 diabetes could be found in a person's gut. In the study, lead researcher Dr Emma Hamilton-Williams investigated differences in gut microbiota, and specifically compared those susceptible to Type ...

Menu items for patients with type 1 and type 2 include fibre-rich fruits and canola oils.  In 2013, there were about 1,160,000 people living with diabetes in Australia. Of these, about 15 per cent had type 1 diabetes, and 80 ...

Latest statistics show that up to three million Australians over the age of 25 will have diabetes by 2025. National Diabetes Week –14 to 20 July – serves as a timely reminder for Australians to take steps to change their ...

Diabetes Australia has called for annual screenings for the disease to be introduced for all Australians over 40. Linda Belardi reports. The next generation of adults may be the first in centuries to have shorter life expectancies than their parents ...

A Health economist has told a Sydney forum Australia has underinvested in preventative health programs to help curb the rise in diabetes. Obesity will make diabetes the leading cause of death and disease in 10 years and put a heavy ...

The prevalence of diabetes has more than doubled since 1990, according to the AIHW. Australian men are becoming obese faster than women even though they generally do more exercise, according to a new report which shows the incidence of diabetes ...

Diabetes Australia calls for more sensitive discussion of the condition Health professionals should refrain from referring to diabetes as a 'disease' and describing people living with the condition as 'diabetics' or 'sufferers', according to a new position statement from Diabetes ...

While the prevalence of diabetes has been steadily increasing, practice nurses and GPs have had limited access to useful and informative education resources, writes Annie May. Every day in Australia an estimated 275 people develop diabetes. It's the nation's sixth ...