A child with achondroplasia and their mother
26 March 2025

Driving Progress for Children with Achondroplasia

Dr. Ravi Savarirayan has been at the forefront of research advancing care for children...

An adolescent girl experiencing period pain or endometriosis
12 March 2025

What’s the difference between period pain and endometriosis pain?

Menstruation, or a period, is the bleeding that occurs about monthly in healthy people...

Children at lunch
12 March 2025

Without change, half of Australian kids and adolescents will be overweight or obese by 2050

Since the 1990s, the proportion of the world’s population who are overweight (with a...

Two children
25 February 2025

The power of family involvement in Batten disease research

Batten disease is an extremely rare, fatal genetic illness that affects the nervous...

A pregnant mother hugging a toddler on a bed
14 February 2025

Even low levels of alcohol use during pregnancy are linked to changes in unborn babies

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) describes a range of severe neurodevelopmental...

A child has their heart checked by a doctor
16 January 2025

Preventing invasive procedures for children with heart transplants

For children requiring heart transplants, the journey doesn’t end after they receive...

Microscope
25 November 2024

Is it ever OK for scientists to experiment on themselves?

A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines after publishing a report of...

Child with a bandaid, mother and doctor
14 November 2024

Trust matters but we also need these 3 things to boost vaccine coverage

Australia’s COVID vaccine roll-out started slowly, with supply shortages and logistical...

child on skateboard
02 September 2024

What are puberty blockers? What are the benefits and risks for transgender children?

Puberty blockers are medications that stop the body from producing oestrogen and...

Child looking out of window
29 August 2024

Can a 10-year-old be responsible for a crime? Here’s what brain science tells us

Authors: Professor Susan M. Sawyer , Murdoch Children's Research Institute and The...

Child with asthma
29 August 2024

RSV is linked to asthma in children – but we can’t say one causes the other yet

Authors: Dr Jane Tuckerman and Dr Danielle Wurzel, Murdoch Children's Research...

Mother holding smiling baby
06 August 2024

Whooping cough can be deadly for young babies. Vaccination is our best defence

So far in 2024 there have been more than 17,000 cases of whooping cough (pertussis)...

Person smiling at camera
01 August 2024

White Paper Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Care

Professor Anne Alstott of Yale Law School and Dr. Meredithe McNamara of the Yale School...

Child getting throat checked
27 June 2024

Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome: should I be worried if I’m travelling to Japan?

Authors: Phoebe Williams , University of Sydney and Murdoch Children's Research...

Child wearing beanie
17 June 2024

What happens when you give a low-income family $26,000 in their child’s first year? We think we’ve found out

Authors: Professor Sharon Goldfeld , Dr Elodie O'Connor and Dr Sarah Gray It’s...