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Quad Fellows, who are undertaking a first-of-its-kind scholarship program designed to build ties among the next generation of scientists and technologists from Australia, Japan, India and the US, visited the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct today as part of the Quad Fellowship Summit. Professor
Two research centres based at the Murdoch Children’s Research Centre that aim to understand the underlying causes of speech disorders and how best to treat and manage allergies have been awarded a funding boost. The Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) projects have each received $2.5 million in
A trial has confirmed that virtual reality helps children calmly receive radiotherapy treatment, and the technology could help prevent the use of general anaesthetic. The Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre trial involved 30 cancer participants, aged six
Vaccination against rotavirus has led to a significant decrease in hospitalisations and deaths of children due to severe diarrhoea in the Western Pacific region, a new study has found. The research, led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and published in BMC Infectious Diseases,
Dear friends, I wanted to thank everyone in the MCRI community for your thoughtful messages of support since my last email to you. Your kindness and consideration is a great source of encouragement to everyone at the Institute during these uncertain times. Working together with the global medical
Low blood oxygen is more common in sick children than previously thought, and strongly increases children's risk of death, Australian-led research has found. Murdoch Children's Research Institute paediatrician Dr Hamish Graham led the international research project, published in the Lancet's
A network of medical experts has produced Australia's first national guidelines to streamline the management of children with hearing loss. More than 12,000 Australian children have a significant hearing impairment and on average one child is identified with hearing loss every day. A working
KIF1A-Associated Neurological Disorder or KAND is a severe and ultra-rare neurodegenerative disorder caused by one or more variants in the KIF1A gene. Symptoms of KIF1A-Associated Neurological Disorder can present at birth or in early childhood and can affect the eyes, muscles and nerves.
Rotavirus is a highly infectious virus of the gut that typically affects babies and young children. The diarrhoeal disease can be fatal.
One dose of an anti-parasite drug was just as effective as two at significantly reducing the spread of scabies, the contagious, intensely itchy skin condition, according to a new study. The research, led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in collaboration with the Fiji Ministry
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