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Meet Professor Mike Riddell. Mike is the co-founder of the Physical Activity and Diabetes Unit at York University in Toronto recently visited Perth to share his research on exercise and type 1 diabetes at the Children’s Diabetes Centre Community Forum.

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In a world-first, WA researchers are trying to stop type 1 diabetes from developing in very young children by picking up red flags before symptoms appear.

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The Federal Government will widen its continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) program next month.

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Impact for Tourette's, the first survey of its kind in Australia provides comprehensive national data on the daily challenges faced by children and adults living with tic-related disorders like Tourette syndrome

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Impact for Tourette’s is Australia’s first national project evaluating the unmet needs of people with Tourette syndrome and other tic conditions.

In 2020, we celebrated our 30th birthday with those who matter most — the kids whose lives we’ve changed through the research we do.

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Early motor impairments have been reported in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), but it is not clear if early detection of motor impairments can identify children at risk for NDD or how early such impairments might be detected. Our aim was to characterize early motor function in children later diagnosed with NDD relative to typically developing children or normative data.

While individual diseases are rare, as a group, rare diseases are common. Recent estimates suggest that between 3% and 6% of the world’s population are affected by rare disease.