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MS Research Australia and JDRF Australia have co-awarded an innovative research fellowship for a new study looking for overlaps between two autoimmune diseases – multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes (T1D), thanks to a $150,000 grant from the Macquarie Group Foundation. Dr Grant Parnell, a young medical researcher at The Westmead Institute for Medical…more

Giving probiotics to babies in the first few weeks of life may lower their risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D), a recent study has found. The study found that children at risk of developing T1D who were given probiotics as part of their diet within the first 27 days of life had a 60%…more

My beautiful son is called Jamie. He’s nearly a leap year baby, born on 28 February. Our type 1 diabetes story starts like this… Just after Jamie’s first birthday things starting going downhill. Jamie’s development stopped and even went backwards. He had been starting to use words, starting to walk and was doing well with…more