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The vast majority of women who contract bird flu during pregnancy and their unborn baby will die from the virus, according to a new study. And the findings stress the importance of early inclusion of ...

Almost three quarters of adolescents in Australia experience clinically significant depression or anxiety symptoms, with most being chronic, according to a new study. And preventive strategies...

A promising daily tablet is effective at increasing height and improving proportional limb growth in children with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, according to a new study. And the...

A unique program designed for schools to improve mental health has achieved top marks, having improved awareness and reduced stigma among students. Read more....

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) will partner with 12 countries in the Pacific and Southeast Asia under a $10 million initiative to improve child and adolescent health across the region. ...

A Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’s (MCRI) project that aims to slow or reverse the growth of a deadly childhood brain cancer has received funding. Professor David Eisenstat has been awarded...

Murdoch Children's Research Institute's (MCRI) Dr Daisy Shepherd has been recognised as one of Australia's superstars of science. Dr Shepherd was one of 60 scientists, technologists, engineers and...

Four Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) researchers have been recognised for their child health research into improving cancer treatments, the effect of the environment on health, better...

Three Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) postgraduate students have been awarded funding to advance Strep A vaccine research, improve lung care for extremely preterm babies and identify...

Three Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) researchers have received federal grants to improve care for extremely preterm babies, examine links between genetics and infection severity and...

For children requiring heart transplants, the journey doesn’t end after they receive their new heart. Following transplantation, patients must undergo frequent invasive biopsies to check for heart...

A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines after publishing a report of successfully treating her own breast cancer by self-administering an experimental treatment. Having previously ...

Australia’s COVID vaccine roll-out started slowly, with supply shortages and logistical shortcomings. Once it got going, we immunised more than 95% of the population. This week’s COVID inquiry...

Puberty blockers are medications that stop the body from producing oestrogen and testosterone. In the clinic, they’re called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHa). If adolescents take...

Authors: Professor Susan M. Sawyer, Murdoch Children's Research Institute and The University of Melbourne and Nandi Vijayakumar, Deakin University   The age a child can be arrested, charged and...