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Reducing inequities in children’s health and development would have immediate and lasting benefits for children, families and communities. There are many existing policies and services that help ensure children have access to the environments and experiences needed to thrive in their early years
Helping parents and carers of children to navigate the challenges of COVID-19. Parenting in the age of coronavirus is a podcast from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, supported by Medibank. Child health experts will discuss the challenges parents are facing, and explore how
Children who get to sleep early are more likely to have better health and happier mums, according to research from the Institute that reveals the true importance of bedtime. Research presented at the Australasian conference Sleep DownUnder 2015 in Melbourne found that getting kids to bed early may
An Australian first biobank will be established to improve and discover new treatments for children with genetic muscle diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The National Muscle Disease Bio-databank, co-led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Monash University and Alfred Health, will
The Murdoch Children's Research Institute based in Melbourne will be a key partner in a $35 million national consortium formed to fast track a vaccine against Strep A, the highly contagiousbacterium that causes around 500,000 deaths every year. The Federal Minister for Indigenous Health, Ken
Wastewater monitoring could act as an early warning system to help countries better prepare for future pandemics, according to a new study. An international collaboration involving Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, Mathematica and the United Kingdom’s Health
Having a food allergy as a baby is linked to asthma and reduced lung function later in childhood, according to a world first study. The research, led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and published in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, found that early life food allergy was associated
Child health experts are calling for schools to be seen as essential services and prioritised to stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic, to ensure equity and lessen the adverse social and educational effects of school closures on Australian children. A review of Australian and international
Paediatric neurologists and allied health clinicians have developed world-first clinical practice guidelines for children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), the most common childhood inherited nerve disorder. Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) research associate Dr Eppie Yiu and
What can parents of primary schoolers do to support their children as transition back to school after being in COVID-19 lock down? In our fifth podcast episode of Parenting in the age of coronavirus, host Professor Sharon Goldfeld leads a discussion with internationally-recognised child health
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