Antimicrobial resistance in children is rising globally and will worsen over the next decade, threatening the effectiveness of life‑saving antibiotics, according to a world-first monitoring platform. ...

Smaller doses of COVID-19 booster vaccines can provide long-lasting immunity, helping to reduce costs and improve access to vaccination, according to new research. And the findings could also inform...

The future of child health and medicine will be explored in a special in-conversation between Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) Chief Scientist Professor Melissa Little and acclaimed...

Australia’s first clinical guidelines to identify and manage high blood pressure in children aims to curb growing rates of heart disease, kidney failure and organ damage in adulthood. The...

At Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) we are driven by a singular purpose – to give all children the opportunity to live a healthy and fulfilled life. In the 2025 MCRI Annual Report,...

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) will advance stem cell-based drug discovery, which could lead to new therapies for currently incurable conditions, thanks to a generous philanthropic...

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’s (MCRI) Dr Courtney Munro has received the Laurie Cox Leadership Award for her research on adolescent menstrual and pelvic pain. The award, which honours the...

Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Professor Daniel MacArthur and his team have secured federal funding to expand a cutting-edge system for genetic disease analysis into a national platform....

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) Professor Megan Munsie and her interdisciplinary team have secured $1.5 million from the Federal Government to explore how children and young people...

A project led by the UNSW Sydney's Professor Raghu Lingham, in partnership with Murdoch Children's Reseach Institute (MCRI), to incorporate statewide health data into a national research platform has ...

Nandi Vijayakumar, Deakin University; Susan M. Sawyer, The University of Melbourne, and Sylvia C. Lin, Deakin University; Murdoch Children's Research Institute As the United Kingdom and other...

In the past ten years or so there has been a lot of interest to see if medicinal cannabis can help children with emotional and behavioural problems – the ones associated with conditions such as...

New research on a group of Australian preschoolers suggests more than 40% are dealing with an anxiety disorder. The study, led by Monash University and published in the journal of Clinical Child...

Australia’s world-first national legislation to restrict access to social media accounts for children under 16 years old has been in force for about three months. New data from a survey of 1,070...

The Victorian government has announced it will train 150 GPs to diagnose and start treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults and children. This decision could shorten ...