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A hospital in north Queensland is the first in the state to trial the use of 3D cameras to treat patients with diabetes living in rural and remote areas.
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| UpdatedA partnership between a preventative health centre and the Australian government-funded Fiji Community Development Program is coming to an end this month.
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A new study warns 50 years of progress in the fight against heart-related deaths is now in jeopardy, with growing rates of obesity and type-2 diabetes leading to a resurgence in the number of deaths attributed to heart disease.
Topics: heart-disease, government-and-politics, diseases-and-disorders, health, diabetes, obesity, australia
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| UpdatedPacific countries have some of the highest rates of diabetes in the world, and complications that aren't seen to promptly often lead to amputation.
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| UpdatedNovember 14 is the day chosen by the World Health Organisation and the International Diabetes Federation as World Diabetes Day.
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| UpdatedIt took almost two decades for diabetes to take the eyesight of Brisbane opera singer Janelle Colquhoun, and she is warning other diabetics they could face a similar fate unless they take more care.
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Australian health professionals are calling for greater awareness about the prevalence and danger of Type 1 diabetics restricting their insulin to lose weight.
Topics: eating-disorders, diseases-and-disorders, diabetes, health, australia
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| UpdatedRecent research suggesting diabetes rates in some Pacific countries may be inflated has been met with some scepticism in the region.
Topics: diabetes, diet-and-nutrition, pacific, fiji, samoa
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| UpdatedPioneering research is set to begin in Adelaide to test if the way the gut detects sweetness helps or hinder people with type-2 diabetes.
Topics: diabetes, diseases-and-disorders, health, adelaide-5000, sa
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The mother of a type 1 diabetic is angered by a poster at a CSIRO centre that failed to distinguish between different types of diabetes, and referred to diabetics as 'fat cats'.
Topics: diabetes, health-policy, maroochydore-4558, brisbane-4000, canberra-2600
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The financial burden of so-called lifestyle illnesses in working people aged 45 and over is costing federal and state governments hundreds of millions of dollars annually, reveals the first major study of its kind.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, health-policy, health, diabetes, stroke, diseases-and-disorders, heart-disease, obesity, work, australia
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| UpdatedAbout 20,000 Australians suffering type 2 diabetes will be able to swap twice daily injections for a weekly treatment, and save around $1,600 per year under a new medicine to be placed on the PBS.
Topics: health, diabetes, healthcare-facilities, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedA study into the impact of healthcare costs on patients with chronic illnesses reveals that a quarter regularly skip treatments they can not afford.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, asthma, diabetes, government-and-politics, medical-research, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedA woman who lost her daughter to type 1 diabetes says an educational fundraiser developed in north Queensland should be implemented in classrooms Australia-wide.
Topics: diabetes, children, mackay-4740
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Strapping patients to a bed in the name of science is a vital element of a Brisbane university's Australian-first study into type 2 diabetes.
Topics: health, diabetes, diseases-and-disorders, medical-research, brisbane-4000
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Should blood sugar testing be as routine as temperature and blood pressure tests?
Topics: diabetes, child-health-and-behaviour, maroochydore-4558