The Liberal Candidate for Wannon, Dan Tehan said the Coalition will provide $35 million to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to pursue finding a cure for Type 1 diabetes through the Clinical Trial Network from next year.
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DIRECT HEALTH ACTION - $35 MILLION FOR A DIABETES CLINICAL TRIAL NETWORK
Hundreds of families in Wannon will benefit directly, or in the future, from the establishment of Diabetes Clinical Trial Network (CTN) in Australia.
The Liberal Candidate for Wannon, Dan Tehan said the Coalition will provide $35 million to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to pursue finding a cure for Type 1 diabetes through the Clinical Trial Network from next year.
“Unlike the Labor Government, who are spending a fortune on ‘health reforms’ that are adding layers of bureaucracy, the Coalition will take direct action on Health which will make a difference to people’s lives,” Mr Tehan said.
“Type 1 Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases of Australian children.”
“There will be hundreds of families in Wannon in which a family member suffers from Type 1 Diabetes,” Mr Tehan said.
“Establishment of a Diabetes CTN in Australia will enable people with diabetes to join international clinical trials for promising new treatments and technologies for diabetes.”
Mr Tehan said this could give them access to treatments five or ten years before they would otherwise become available in Australia.
“It could bring researchers just that much closer to a cure for this chronic and life-threatening disease,” Mr Tehan said.
There are an estimated 140,000 sufferers of Type 1 diabetes in Australia, 20,000 of those are children. Overall Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes affects more than 800,000 Australians.
An operative CTN would speed up access to the latest treatments and technologies, translate promising Australian research into clinical outcomes, improve health and reduce complications for those with Type 1 diabetes.
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