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Feeding change helps keep kids with intellectual disability out of hospital

Children with intellectual disability who underwent gastrostomy – a feeding tube placed into the stomach – had better overall health and fewer hospitalisations for all causes except acute respiratory illnesses, research led by The Kids Research Institute Australia has found.

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Epigenetic changes underpinning allergen sensitization: a twin-based study

We are studying immune cells from identical twins of which one suffers and one does not suffer from allergic disease to identify specific mechanisms that may pl

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Studies on the immunological mechanisms underlying progression versus resolution of asthma between adolescence and adulthood

This project seeks new information on asthma disease mechanisms, to help propel development of new and better anti-asthma drugs.

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WA Food Atlas

The WA Food Atlas is an interactive tool to assess the food environment across local government areas and how it changes over time.

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How healthy (or unhealthy) is the food environment around Perth schools?

This unique and innovative project will be the first to quantify the local food environment around all government and non-government Perth metropolitan primary and secondary schools.

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Rosemary Sophie Jonathan Wyber La Vincente Carapetis AM MBChB MPH FRACGP PhD BPsych (Hons) MAppEpi PhD AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS Senior Research

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The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers finalists for 2016 Eureka Prizes

Three Perth researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia have today been named finalists for the 2016 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.

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Gina Trapp

ARC DECRA Fellow & Head of Food and Nutrition Research