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Some of the nation’s leading medical researchers will converge on Darwin this week to step out a plan to wipe out rheumatic heart disease.

Researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia say Group A Streptococcus should become a nationally notifiable disease in Australia.

Researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia have begun a comprehensive research project into vaccines aimed at tackling rheumatic fever.

The rates of RHD in Timor-Leste are among the highest in the world, and prevalence is higher among girls than boys

This study sought to determine relationships, by gender, between childhood behaviour problems and adolescent risky sexual behaviours and substance use.

This study was designed to determine the sensitivity and reproducibility of recovering anti-streptolysin O titres (ASOT) from dried blood spot (DBS) samples

Indigenous Australians are much more likely to die from Rheumatic Heart Disease than other Australians.

This review outlines a clinical development strategy detailing the phases of development required for registration of a candidate Group A streptococci vaccin

Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease is cost-effective in our context

The prognosis of young Indigenous Australians diagnosed with severe RHD is bleak; interventions must focus on earlier detection and treatment