First Person Gets New Vaccine Against Diabetes

A Melbourne 11-year old schoolboy is the first person in the world to take a pioneering vaccine against diabetes. Connor Ahles, 11, is the billion-dollar boy – the first to test a revolutionary Victorian discovery to prevent Type 1 diabetes. He will take the insulin vaccine through a nasal spray once a week for a year. If successful, the vaccine could save more than $1 billion in diabetes-related health care costs.

The vaccine may also be considered for inclusion on national childhood immunization schedules.

Early tests confirm it can encourage immunity against Type 1 diabetes by activating protective immune cells.

The vaccine was developed by a team that included Associate Prof Peter Coleman from Royal Melbourne Hospital and Prof Len Harrison from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

Connor will be joined in the test by 300 children and young adults in the next two years. Hospitals across Australia and New Zealand will be involved.

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Nurses in diabetes disease management: The effect of nurse-directed diabetes care on “preventable diabetes-related urgent care/emergency room visits” as well as on hospitalization were studied in diabetic patients who completed a diabetes managed care program. In this program, patients were treated by a specially trained registered nurse following detailed treatment algorithms for diabetes care for 1 year. Nurse-directed care resulted in less use of urgent care/emergency room centers as well as fewer hospitalizations for preventable diabetes-related conditions. It is suggested that policy makers who seek to improve diabetes care and conserve resources should seriously consider adopting this approach. Nurses and physicians already seem to be in agreement that nurses should take a larger role in managing diabetes. This was also shown in the “cross-national diabetes attitude wishes and needs (DAWN)” study.  Diabetes Care,30 (224-227): Davidson M, Ansari A, Karlan V Effect of a nurse-directed diabetes disease management program on urgent care/emergency room visits and hospitalizations in a minority population – Diabetes Educator,33 (152-162): Siminerio L, Funnell M, Peyrot M, Rubin R US nurses’ perceptions of their role in diabetes care: results of the cross-national Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs (DAWN) Study

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