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Suicide prevention guidelines to drive better services for LGBTQA+ young people

Researchers have developed Australia’s first comprehensive guidelines for clinical and community services supporting LGBTQA+ youth.

RSV responsible for one out of every 50 childhood deaths worldwide

The urgency for a world-first respiratory syncytial virus vaccine is at an all-time high.

Alcohol industry lobbying puts babies at risk

The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have urged Australia’s Food Safety Ministers to hold their nerve and resist alcohol industry efforts to water down health labels that will protect Australian babies from the lifelong effects of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

Assessing COVID-19 Across Western Australian Schools

Western Australia has been highly successful at containing community spread of COVID-19 to date.

Replication of rare aggressive brain cancer could pave the way for better treatments

In an Australian-first, The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have developed a new tool that could improve outcomes for children with a highly aggressive type of brain cancer.

Churchill Fellow to explore how other countries get kids back to school

The Kids Research Institute Australia researcher Dr Kirsten Hancock will use a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to investigate how other countries handle school absenteeism.

My child is trans – how do I support them?

Raising a child in one gender and then having them identify as another at any stage in their life can be difficult for a parent to understand and is not always an easy shift for a parent to make.

Young people suggest anti-smoking style interventions for energy drinks

Researchers conducted a series of group interviews with young people to find out how much they knew about energy drinks and the consequences of drinking them.

Delivering smart drugs into cells

The Drug Discovery Unit has been finding ways for smart drugs to penetrate deep into cells and attacking their disease targets while causing fewer side effects

Australian kids doing better in key development indicators

Australian 5 year olds are developing better than they were three years ago and have improved in most development indicators, according to the latest AEDI data.