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Strong advocacy efforts have paid off with health and food safety ministers from around Australia and New Zealand finally approving the recommended version of a warning label designed to highlight the potential risks of alcohol during pregnancy.
World-first findings from the collaborative REACT study – a joint project between The Kids, PCH, UWA and Curtin University – have led to the asthma medication Ventolin being routinely given to paediatric patients before tonsillectomy surgery to prevent respiratory complications.
Despite the risk of having a hypo (low blood glucose levels), Gina said she refused to let T1D stop her from exercising.
A program unfolding in four very diverse locations across Western Australia is working to give children aged 0–4 the best start in life.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) researchers are working hard to progress phage therapy as an alternative treatment to antibiotics in people with CF who develop life-threatening lung infections.
The following maps highlight the Indigenous suicide rate trends over time (from 2001 to 2012) in different regions of Australia.
One hundred years after the discovery of insulin, technology advancements are being heralded as the dawn of a new era for managing type 1 diabetes (T1D) in young people.
New research has revealed the extraordinary impact of a collaborative project between The Kids Research Institute Australia and the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, with rates of hospitalisation for pneumonia dropping by nearly 60 per cent thanks to the introduction of the pneumococcal vaccine
A long-held belief linking gut bacteria to autism has been debunked by an Australian research team that included researchers from CliniKids at The Kids Research Institute Australia.
When Perth mum Lacy Swan’s daughter Charlotte failed the newborn hearing test at 3 days of age, the medical team explained it could simply be due to fluid on the ears.