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Energy drinks not OK for kids

Telethon Kids Institute researchers have found more than half of young people who consumed energy drinks suffered negative health effects.

Helping kids get the most out of school

Professor Zubrick and Dr Kirsten Hancock are among several Telethon Kids researchers working through the Life Course Centre.

WA data crucial to key stillbirth finding

A 1970s initiative which saw midwives begin collecting key data about all births in Western Australia has been crucial to new findings about stillbir…

Busting myths around stillbirth

Telethon Kids Institute researchers believe a public education campaign, like the one SIDS, would help to reduce the number of babies who are stillbo…

Embracing the mental health of our children and young people

Embrace – a new research collaboration based at The Kids – will bring a new focus to understanding and improving the mental health of children and yo…

Child removal data fuels case for change

Telethon Kids Institute research revealed Aboriginal children are 10 times more likely than non-Aboriginal children to be placed in out-of- home care.

Finding answers for Tenaya: from a sore throat to open-heart surgery

When Katrina took her daughter Tenaya to the local emergency department for the fourth time, she was determined she wouldn’t be leaving without answe…

Ending deadly heart disease finally within our sights

It's been a huge year for those working to eliminate rheumatic heart disease (RHD), with breakthroughs including $35M in funding to develop a Strep A…

State-first program to accelerate digital health in WA

A consortium of partners across the WA medical research sector will develop and deliver the State’s first digital health-specific program.

For kids, by kids: New “Boom Boom” song teaches children how to prevent deadly heart disease

Once you hear it, you won’t be able to get it out of your head – and that’s exactly the point of the new song ‘Boom Boom’.