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Learn with The Kids – suitable for kids and schools

Find out about upcoming school holiday workshops at The Kids Research Institute Australia Discovery Centre.

Our volunteers play one of the most important roles in our Discovery Centre – they help kids play and understand the games.

Hands-on science lesson plans for teachers related to the topic 'What's In Our Cells?'

ORIGINS has sub-projects exploring the link between a mother's diet during pregnancy and health outcomes of the child. Projects also explore nutrition and eating habits during the early years.
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Maternal consumption of coffee and tea during pregnancy and risk of childhood ALL: results from an Australian case-control studyTo investigate whether maternal coffee and/or tea consumption during the last 6 months of pregnancy was associated with risk of childhood ALL.
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Community-Level Socioeconomic Inequalities in Infants With Poor Fetal Growth in Western Australia, 1984 to 2006This study describes social and racial inequalities in poor fetal growth in Western Australia between 1984 and 2006.
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Innate immunity in human newborn infants: prematurity means more than immaturityNeonates, particularly those born prematurely, are exquisitely vulnerable to life-threatening infections. This increased susceptibility to infection...
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Immediate and Longer Term Immunogenicity and Safety of a Single Dose of the Combined Haemophilus influenzae TypeHib-primed but MenC-naive toddlers (N = 433) were randomized to receive 1 dose of Hib-MenC-TT or separate Hib-TT and MenC-CRM197 vaccines.
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Population-based trends in pregnancy hypertension and pre-eclampsia: an international comparative studyThe objective of this study was to compare international trends in pre-eclampsia rates and in overall pregnancy hypertension rates...