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Sophisticated modelling shows WA’s Omicron outbreak still has months to runWestern Australia’s Omicron outbreak is far from over, with new modelling showing the number of total infections is only at its half-way point.
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Telethon supports vital child health research projectsThe generous support of West Australians through Channel 7’s Telethon Trust will help support crucial child health research at The Kids Research Institute Australia in 2022.
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Why it’s safe for kids to be at schoolAs Australia battles with COVID-19 outbreaks across all mainland states, there is a sense of familiar dread as major cities plunge into lockdown.
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Improving aftercare for young people at risk of suicideA collaborative research team has secured federal funding to examine ways to improve the experience that children, adolescents and young people have when they present to hospital emergency departments for an acute mental health crisis with the aim of reducing the rate of youth suicide.
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Aboriginal researcher and psychiatrist named joint winner of national mental health prizePioneering Aboriginal psychiatrist, researcher and mental health champion Professor Helen Milroy has been named joint winner of the 2020 Australian Mental Health Prize.
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Whooping cough vaccine could be a new weapon in the fight against food allergiesResearchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia and Curtin University will use a $3.9 million grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council to investigate whether a type of whooping cough vaccine could provide bonus protection against food allergies and eczema.
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The Kids skin researcher awarded prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science fellowshipDr Asha Bowen, Head of Skin Health at the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, has been awarded a 2018 Fellowship as part of the prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science program.
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Australian parents oblivious to true danger of the fluNew research investigating the devastating impact of the 2017 flu season by PAEDS-FluCAN, a national collaboration observing influenza in children, confirmed it was time to take action after thousands of children were hospitalised with the virus last year.
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Skin infections send eight out of every 100 Aboriginal babies to hospitalIn a WA first, researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia have shown that Aboriginal babies are 22.5 times more likely to be treated for skin infections than non-Aboriginal babies.
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FASD resources for the justice systemResearchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia have developed a range of new resources to help lawyers, judicial officers and other justice professionals