15 August 2018

Prematurity Roadmap #1: Looking After Little Lungs on Facebook Live

Together with our partners, the Life's Little Treasures Foundation, we hosted an...

13 August 2018

Adolescent health: undervalued and under-invested across the globe, Harvard/MCRI study finds

Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research Institute, in partnership with Harvard Medical...

03 August 2018

Colic: which treatments work and which don’t?

Everyone has an opinion on infant colic. But what new parents really need is reassurance...

02 August 2018

It’s time to Immunise Melbourne

North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network today launched a new campaign hoping to...

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25 July 2018

Recent antibiotic use linked to thicker arteries in early childhood

Recent antibiotic use in young children may be linked to increased cardiovascular risk,...

19 July 2018

Mental health of five year olds linked to their ability to learn

MCRI researchers have analysed teacher-reported data for more than 302,000 Australian...

11 July 2018

Regular teen drinking leads to alcohol problems in adulthood

A new study looking at the drinking patterns of 9,000 adolescents in Australia and New...

03 July 2018

Rotary Art Show to raise funds for vital child allergy research

Money raised at the art show's community night on 9 July will go towards the world-first...

21 June 2018

Infant colic leads to no ongoing problems, study shows

In welcome reassurance to concerned parents, MCRI-funded research conducted by Royal...

01 June 2018

One third of Aussie kids exposed to disadvantage

Changing Children's Chances identifies patterns in children's experiences of...

28 May 2018

Unravelling the genetics of stuttering

Researchers from the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Speech and Language are...

26 May 2018

Spotlight on our researchers: A/Prof Jeanie Cheong

Congratulations to A/Prof Jeanie Cheong, our resident expert in the newborn brain, who...

25 May 2018

Prota/MCRI completes enrolment of Phase 2b multicentre clinical trial of probiotic oral immunotherapy for the treatment of peanut allergy

The PPOIT-003 clinical study has been designed to provide evidence of a longer lasting...

14 May 2018

Budget 2018 confirms the importance of genomic healthcare

Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS) welcomes the $500M allocation to investment...

14 May 2018

Australians with food allergy don’t feel safe eating out - be aware and show you care

Research conducted by Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia on its member database has found...