Hunter Medical Research trial brings a new mobile phone app to manage type 1 diabetes

Simon McCarthy
June 20 2019 - 2:00pm
TRAIL RUN: Cecile Le Roux has been trialling a new app to help manager her daughter, Elaine's type one diabetes for around eight months. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers
TRAIL RUN: Cecile Le Roux has been trialling a new app to help manager her daughter, Elaine's type one diabetes for around eight months. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

Elaine Le Roux is precocious and clever. At her home at Adamstown, she sets straight to work unpacking a tower of blocks stacked neatly against the living room wall and starts constructing something complex and precarious. It topples, but she starts again - stronger at the base this time.

Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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