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World first suggests at home screening can help prevent serious illness from type 1 diabetes

02 November 2022

Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) have shown that a blood test for early diagnosis of type 1 diabetes can prevent serious illness and hospitalisation in children. The innovative test is a finger prick sample that is collected in the home and mailed to the lab.

The RMH partners with Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations

18 January 2022

A national diabetes research centre initiative involving the Royal Melbourne Hospital has been funded through a significant Australian Government grant.

The RMH researchers receive $1.8 million in funding for diabetes trial

15 September 2021

Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) have been funded $1.8 million in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) Investigator Grants.

New research improves screening efficiency for type 1 diabetes

06 September 2021

Researchers from Melbourne have led a global collaboration to develop a simplified blood test that increases the overall screening efficiency for type 1 diabetes.

Study hopes to end stigma for people living with type 1 diabetes

14 July 2021

More than 4 in 5 people with diabetes have experienced stigma while living with their condition.

World-first clinical trial treating type 1 diabetes now underway

16 December 2020

Lucy Lee is the first person to take part in the BANDIT clinical trial, which began at the Royal Melbourne Hospital this month.

The RMH Endocrinologist wins 2020 Young Investigator of the Year Award

19 November 2020

The RMH Endocrinologist Dr Rahul Barmanray has won the 2020 Australasian Diabetes Society President’s Clinical Young Investigator of the Year Award.

I’m not a diabetic, I just have diabetes

12 June 2015

Here's a story from Raj, a person with diabetes.