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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
The newly released Australian modelling combined with international data supports the Victorian Government's move to allow limited numbers of children to return to classrooms, say researchers from Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI). The researchers from the Centre for
New research has uncovered the risk factors for Fijians carrying a pneumonia-causing bacteria. The collaborative study, led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and the Fiji Ministry of Health and Medical Services, will help determine further public health interventions to prevent
Deaths of children and adolescents in China due to infectious diseases were becoming rare prior to the covid-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Quarantinable conditions with high death rates such as cholera and plague had effectively disappeared and many traditional and vaccine-preventable
The Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) has started vaccinating healthcare workers as part of a multi-centre randomised clinical trial of the BCG vaccine against COVID-19. The BRACE trial, announced last week, has already vaccinated over 300 of an eventual 4000 medical workers in
Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious disease researchers are preparing to roll-out a multi-center randomised controlled clinical trial of the BCG vaccine against COVID-19. The trial has been
An Australian study has unearthed a vital clue in predicting the likelihood of a baby having a food allergy - finding that a pregnant mother's gut bacteria may hold the key. The study - a collaboration between the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Deakin University and Barwon Health - was
Understanding human behaviours – panic is a normal response to emergency A common question we asked ourselves during the pandemic was, "Why do people react in the way they do?" As you are aware, our human brains are always ready to act in times of lurking danger. Unlike our hunter-gatherer
A Melbourne-led study has uncovered a new neurodegenerative disorder in which children experience developmental regression and severe epilepsy. The study, led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and published in The American Journal of Human Genetics, found a variation in a gene causes a
School children who experience racial discrimination show higher risk markers for later cardiometabolic disease, including diabetes, heart disease or stroke according to new research from Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and The Australian National University (ANU). The
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