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Funding boost to help researchers better understand how language develops

Telethon Kids Institute researchers have been awarded an Australian Research Council grant to explore how testosterone levels in the womb can impact on a child'

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New collaboration to boost kids early childhood development outcomes across Australia

A new collaboration has been launched to fast track research into action to improve outcomes in the crucial early years of child development and learning.

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New research into Vitamin D and Sunlight has created Project D-Light

Project D-Light aims to understand and harness the benefits of vitamin D and sunlight for Australian children while protecting them from excess UV.

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Re-think on strategies to prevent whooping cough in newborns

Governments should rethink strategies to prevent whooping cough in newborn infants, including booster vaccination of close contacts of the baby.

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Every Friday: Child Health Research Seminars 2014

Dr Howlett completed her PhD studies in 2009 at the MCRI in Melbourne, where she worked on gastric cancer cell signaling...a

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Latitudinal gradient in childhood diabetes

New research from Perth's The Kids Research Institute Australia has shown the local relevance of a worldwide pattern of increased risk of childhood type 1 diabetes.

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“It’s all gone quiet…” MUSIC from COVID19

Hannah Huong Christopher Moore Le Blyth OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD MA (Dev. Econ), MA (App. Stats), PhD (Econ) MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD

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Childhood pneumonia in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea: clinical, microbiological and immunological predictors of disease

Christopher Deborah Hannah Lea-Ann Peter Blyth Lehmann Moore Kirkham Richmond MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD AO, MBBS, MSc OAM BSc (Hons)

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Infection Transmission in Early Childhood Education and Care: a mixed methods study to inform future interventions

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many uncertainties and incorrect assumptions about respiratory pathogen transmission.

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Prediction of Causative Pathogen of Osteomyelitis Using Bayesian Network Modelling

Asha Christopher Tom Bowen Blyth Snelling BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD FAHMS OAM MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Head