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What can parents of young people aged 12-17 do to support their wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic? In our third episode of Parenting in the age of coronavirus podcast, internationally-recognised child and adolescent health researchers and paediatricians from MCRI provide useful tips on
COVID-19 causes much milder disease in children compared to adults, with very few children experiencing serious or life-threatening COVID-19 illness around the world.The reasons why children are more mildly affected than adults are not clear, and we are trying to solve this mystery through an
What can parents of children aged 6-12 do to support their wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic? In our second episode of Parenting in the age of coronavirus podcast, internationally-recognised child health researchers and paediatricians from MCRI provide useful tips on screen time, education in
The Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) will establish a ground-breaking centre to investigate ethical issues around paediatric genomic testing after being awarded funding in the Federal Government's recent $33 million research grants ground.Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced funding
An A$10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will allow the Murdoch Children's Research Institute's (MCRI) clinical trial of the BCG vaccine against COVID-19 to extend to 10,000 healthcare workers across Australia, Spain and The Netherlands. The grant will allow the MCRI team to
David Burgner, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Davinder Singh-Grewal, University of Sydney; Linny Kimly Phuong, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and Ryan Lucas, University of Sydney Doctors in the United Kingdom and other European countries have recently reported small but increasing
A new project led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) that aims to improve our understanding of inflammation in childhood lung diseases has been awarded a prestigious $USD525,000 grant. MCRI's Dr Melanie Neeland and Professor Sarath Ranganathan along with Associate Professor
An international study led by Melbourne researchers has discovered nine new genes linked to the most severe type of childhood speech disorder, apraxia. The research analysed the genetic make-up of 34 affected children and young people, and showed that variations in nine genes likely explained
It is often tricky to work out how much is too much screen time for kids. Not all screen time is the same – screens can include phones, laptops, desktop computers and TVs, and children can use them to communicate with friends and family, play games or do schoolwork.Since the pandemic, more
A better framework for the reanalysis of genetic data, a game-changing process which could improve diagnostic rates by up to 32 per cent, was needed, a new study has found. The research, led by the Murdoch Children's Research (MCRI) and the University of Melbourne and published in Familial Cancer,
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