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North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network today launched a new campaign hoping to encourage more parents to vaccinate their babies and toddlers to help protect them and others in the community from potentially life-threatening disease. 'It's time to immunise Melbourne' is directly targeted at
Recent antibiotic use in young children may be linked to increased cardiovascular risk, according to a joint study between Utrecht Academic Medical Centre in The Netherlands and Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in Melbourne. The researchers found that children who received antibiotics
MCRI researchers have analysed teacher-reported data for more than 302,000 Australian children in their first year of primary school and identified a strong correlation between child mental health and learning. The research has been published in the School Mental Health journal. The paper looked
Written by Stem Cells Australia members Freya Bruveris and Ana Rita Leitoguinho from Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and Jennifer Hollands from The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.Stem cell research was recently brought out of the laboratory and into the public discourse
A new study looking at the drinking patterns of 9,000 adolescents in Australia and New Zealand has been published in the latest issue of the international journal Addiction.It was led by researchers from the University of New South Wales and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and
Money raised at the art show's community night on 9 July will go towards the world-first study, which aims to identify ways to prevent the development of food allergy in infants. The Ilhan Food Allergy Foundation has offered to match funds raised up to $50,000. Australia currently has the world's
Dr Laura Conway, from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), is studying how children aged four years and under learn language, with a focus on the one in five children who are slow to talk. "There is evidence that language develops through a mixture of nature and nurture. Children's
In welcome reassurance to concerned parents, MCRI-funded research conducted by Royal Children's Hospital paediatrician Dr Georgie Bell found that crying and stress related to the common infant condition is short-lived and will likely resolve.Infant colic is excessive crying in a healthy baby that
Changing Children's Chances identifies patterns in children's experiences of disadvantage between birth and age 9 and how these experiences related to children's development at 10-11 years of age to quantify the long-lasting impact. Researchers from RMIT University, and Murdoch Children's Research
Researchers from the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Speech and Language are calling for 3,000 Australians aged seven and above with experience of stuttering (past or present) to volunteer for the nation's largest ever Genetics of Stuttering Study. The study aims to pinpoint the genes that
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