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A/Prof Steer has led a series of landmark studies that have achieved astonishing results controlling neglected tropical diseases including scabies in the Pacific region. The Skin Health Intervention Fiji Trial (SHIFT) and the Azithomycin Ivermectin Mass drug administration (AIM) studies, an MCRI
New research has found that caffeine given to very preterm babies in their first weeks of life significantly improves their long-term breathing ability at 11 years of age. The research has been published in the prestigious American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine this month, and
The longitudinal study looked at three groups of children – neonates (before 30 days), pre-school (30 days to five years) and school age (over five years to 18 years) and analysed their progress over four time points – acute, one month, six months and 12 months. Researchers reviewed the 64
Andrew, Director of MCRI's Infection and Immunity theme, was awarded as the top ranked applicant for the Career Development Fellowship scheme in the Population Health category. Career Development Fellowships support Australian early to mid-career health and medical researchers. The award is given
The study of 224 Australian children aged between 5 and 11 was the largest study to date to examine the psychosocial development of school-aged children conceived using donor sperm. This was also the first study to describe health outcomes of these children.Professor David Amor, from Murdoch
The longitudinal study, the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study, was the first in the world to document health-related outcomes in people in their 30s who had self-harmed during their adolescence. Until now, very little has been known about the longer-term health and social outcomes of
The new results, published in Academic Pediatrics, showed that the high level of frequent bullying is having an impact on children's academic performance. The study found that children who experienced bullying had poorer academic performance and the detrimental effect was stronger for girls than
Dr Jocelyn Chan is a PhD student within the Pneumococcal Research group at MCRI, which is part of our Infection and Immunity theme. What are you aiming to achieve through your research?Australia is very lucky to have high rates of childhood vaccination. Because of this, we benefit from something
The new collaboration between the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and the Liggins Institute, dubbed "The GENO Project", has received $1.5m from the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment's Catalyst Project fund, which supports international research partnerships and
Written by Petrea Cahir, Karen Glover and Stephanie Brown | Healthy Mothers Healthy Families, Population Health, MCRI Did you know that prior to the late 18th century, there were at least 250 distinct language groups across the land we now know as Australia? Within these languages groups there
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