One in Six Billion
One in Six Billion
Andrew Hattersley and Maggie Shepherd
Episode 8: Carsyn Underwood, Karla Underwood, Donna Taylor and Tim McDonald. Early correct treatment is excellent! How can we treat everyone early?
43 minutes Posted Mar 5, 2024 at 9:00 am.
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In this episode, Maggie and Andrew start by talking to Carsyn Underwood and her mums Karla and Donna about Carsyn’s diagnosis of neonatal diabetes and how she got the right treatment very early and had an the excellent outcome as a result,.  

They go on to talk to Professor Tim McDonald, a top NHS laboratory scientist, who has been researching into how we can make sure everyone is diagnosed early by developing universal screening for neonatal diabetes in the first week of life.