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The Kids successfully pushed for the mandatory fortification of flour in Aus with the vitamin folic acid for the primary prevention of neural tube defects

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Paediatrician and Director of The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor Jonathan Carapetis, shares his top 10 tips for health happy kids.

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Western Australian doctors are now required by law to report all cases of rheumatic heart disease.

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We are looking for 6 new members to join our Child and Adolescent Cystic Fibrosis Consumer Reference Group of WA

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The Telethon Kids Institute welcomes the State Government's new $1.2 million funding initiative to support WA's research institutes.

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One of the 50 most influential scientists in the world today, Professor Leroy Hood, delivered The Kids Research Institute Australia Community Lecture on Tue December 1st.

We developed recommendations to assess and manage issues relating to poor growth and weight gain in Rett syndrome, including consideration of gastrostomy.

We investigated our data from family questionnaires to see how feeding difficulties related to age, the type of MECP2 mutation, and the use of gastrostomy.

We developed a measure of hand function, and then investigated relationships between hand function, type of MECP2 mutation, age and severity of symptoms.

We investigated what parents thought about the ways to manage scoliosis and what they thought they needed to help them better manage their daughter's scoliosis.