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The Kids Research Institute Australia answers all of your questions about vaccines and children

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Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease that can cause severe, long-term complications in children.

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Diarrhoea remains a leading cause of mortality among children under five years of age, with over 99 % of deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Poor water quality, inadequate sanitation, poverty, undernutrition, and limited healthcare access contribute to this lingering problem, together with emerging environmental stressors driven by climate change.

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Bringing optimised coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine schedules to immunocompromised populations (BOOST-IC) is a multi-site, adaptive platform trial designed to assess the effect of different booster vaccination schedules in the Australian immunocompromised population on the immunogenicity, safety and cross-protection against COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants. 

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Peanut allergy is the most common childhood-onset, persistent food allergy. Peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT) is a potential treatment, but few studies prospectively examine the outcome of peanut OIT in young children using parent-measured doses compared to standard care (peanut avoidance).

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Cyberbullying is a form of online harassment, where the bullying is carried out through the use of modern technology.

The mental health of Australian children and adolescents

Download the Young Minds Matter report and overview, watch video snapshots and access survey results and tables.

Parents and carers were asked about the quality of services, need for services and whether their children received the needed service, as well as barriers.

A comparison between the first and second national surveys of youth mental health