Improving the care and outcomes for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander consumers with diabetes-related foot complications is the focus of a new telehealth initiative. The project, in conjunction with the SAMHRI’s Aboriginal Chronic Disease Consortium, involves...
Like so many with diabetes, David Fraser has to make an average 180 extra decisions every day. To ensure his glucose levels remain stable, the 47-year-old civil engineer has to consider every meal, every snack, every activity and more. That’s more than 1.6m extra...
South Australia’s first islet cell transplant recipient has marked an incredible milestone – 10 years since the surgery which effectively “cured” her diabetes. Margaret Harrigan marked the occasion sharing her favourite dessert – something she couldn’t do previously –...
The Royal Adelaide Hospital is the only site in SA and the NT that performs endovascular clot retrievals; the procedure to remove a blood clot that is blocking the blood flow to the brain. Over the past few years, the number of clot retrievals has risen dramatically...
