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The Kids Research Institute Australia has backed a series of transport priorities to keep children safer on the roads, boost physical activity levels, and save the economy billions of dollars.
A new The Kids Research Institute Australia-led report into the impact of state and national policy on children’s health has called for kids and families to have more say when it comes
A The Kids Research Institute Australia PhD student has been awarded Western Australia’s only 2022 postgraduate scholarship by the National Health and Medical Research Council
Congratulations to four outstanding early-career researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia, who have been awarded BrightSpark Foundation fellowships and project funding for 2026.
Western Australia’s biggest and only medical research institute dedicated to improving kids’ health and wellbeing has rebranded to The Kids Research Institute Australia.
Today, on World Down Syndrome Day, we celebrate the lives, achievements, and invaluable contributions of people with Down syndrome.
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality for immunocompromised children, particularly for patients with acute leukaemia and those undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Timely diagnosis, using a combination of computed tomography (CT) imaging and microbiological testing, is key to improve prognosis, yet there are inherent challenges in this process. For CT imaging, changes in children are generally less specific than those reported in adults and recent data are limited.
Following reduction of public health and social measures concurrent with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron emergence in late 2021 in Australia, COVID-19 case notification rates rose rapidly. As rates of direct viral testing and reporting dropped, true infection rates were most likely to be underestimated.
In mid-2018, the Australian childhood 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine schedule changed from 3+0 to 2+1, moving the third dose to 12 months of age, to address increasing breakthrough cases of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD), predominantly in children aged >12 months. This study assessed the impact of this change using national IPD surveillance data.
Sepsis, for children and their parents, is a life-altering illness with far-reaching psychosocial and physical impacts. We aimed to explore the needs of such patients and their parents after hospital admission for sepsis to inform the development of a Western Australian postsepsis care service.