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The Impact of Poverty - interview with Steve Zubrick

Growing up poor is about more than just the size of your bank account. Read the new CoLab Impact of Poverty Evidence Report.

New era for child health research with The Kids Research Institute Australia and Curtin partnership signed

The Kids Research Institute Australia and Curtin University will work together as part of a new agreement focused on enhancing children’s health and medical research in WA.

$1.2million in funding secured for two innovative projects

The Kids researchers are collaborating on two major projects that today received $1.2million in funding from MTPConnect.

The Kids welcomes State Government commitment to research

The Kids Research Institute Australia, has welcomed the State Government's budget commitment to innovation and medical research.

Grant to expand innovative consumer involvement program

A $3.2 million grant from Lotterywest will allow the highly successful Consumer Involvement Program to be expanded to 18 other WA organisations.

Free nutrition & lifestyle program for new mums

The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers are offering a free nutrition and lifestyle program for plus sized mums and their babies who live in the Joondalup area.

New research partnership to ensure no child gets left behind

Researchers will track the progress of 12,000 children from birth to age five to identify what services are valuable to families to support the health and wellb

The Kids researchers awarded Raine Medical Research Foundation funding

Congratulations to three The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers, who have been awarded funding from the Raine Medical Research Foundation.

Exploring Hope in Australian Justice Involved Youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Hope is well recognised as a positive protective factor for mental health, improved coping responses to adverse childhood events and better educational outcomes. Hope is composed of synergistic constituents – agency and pathway. A retrospective chart review was conducted of 53 justice-involved youths (10−17 years old) who underwent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) diagnostic assessments with Patches in Western Australia between 2019 and 2020.

Caudal block, high flow oxygen insufflation and dexmedetomidine sedation for inguinal hernia surgery in infants—A prospective evaluation of an alternative anesthesia technique

Inguinal hernia repair is the most common operation in infants, with well recognized anesthetic and perioperative risks. The aim was to investigate if the combination of caudal block, high-flow nasal oxygen insufflation and intravenous dexmedetomidine sedation is suitable for infants undergoing inguinal hernia surgery.