The Challenge: Helping patients, clinicians and hospitals manage dialysis With about one in 10 Australians suffering from chronic kidney disease, hospitals see almost 1.4 million dialysis visits a year. Peritoneal dialysis, which involves treating abdominal fluid rather than blood, is a flexible home-based therapy and is cheaper than hospital-based dialysis. It enables people to have […]
The Challenge: Helping pregnant women and clinicians manage gestational diabetes About one in 10 pregnant women in Australia will be diagnosed with gestational diabetes, a condition linked with increased risk of complications to the mother and baby in pregnancy and birth. Because of the complexities of pregnancy and diabetes, women with the condition are supported by […]
The AIBL – Longitudinal Study of Ageing is designed to assess the biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) by studying Australian participants blood based, imaging, and lifestyle biomarkers over time. The Challenge: There is no known cure for Alzheimer’s Disease. The challenge was to define a set of biomarkers that are associated with the early identification […]