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Results from a world first-study measuring prevalence of chronic wet cough and protracted bacterial bronchitis in four Kimberley Aboriginal communities have highlighted the enormity of the health problem.
For the first time this year, all Australian babies and children aged six months to four years will be entitled to have a free influenza vaccination.
Professor Jonathan Carapetis has made eliminating rheumatic heart disease his life’s work.
Adolescence can be challenging for all kids, but especially for those who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing. New resources developed by The Kids Research Institute Australia aim to make life a little easier.
When KEMH specialists first suggested using coconut oil to treat the fragile skin of Kimberly Rohrlach’s extremely premature first-born child, Isabella, she thought it was more than a little weird.
The first ever National Healthy Skin Guideline has become the gold standard for the treatment, prevention and public health control of skin infections in Indigenous populations in Australia and provides a positive framework for healthy skin.
The Kids Research Institute Australia position on schools and COVID-19 in Western Australia
A letter to the WA public from Jonathan Carapetis and Fiona Stanley.
A number of organisations have created COVID-19 resources specifically developed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
A non-progressive motor disability due to damage of the developing brain, this is the most common physical disability in childhood. Affecting about one in 500 babies, it is frequently accompanied by other neurological impairments, such as intellectual or sensory.