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Written by University of Melbourne Masters of Science Communication students Jasmine McBain-Miller, Kimberley Meyers, Ashley Sroka and Bronwyn Wolfaardt under the guidance and direction of Associate Professor Jeff Craig. 1000 day head start Every parent wants to give their child the best start to
Mother of twins Jess Wheller shares her experience after hearing about MCRI research findings released 19 July 2016 highlighting alarming rates of depression for parents of babies born before 30 weeks. She hopes her story will help to further raise awareness of this important issue
Q.1. My two year old son only says a handful of words. My friends’ children who are a similar age use many more words than him and talk in sentences. Should I be worried? A. There is wide variation in the age children start to talk. For example, while some 2-year olds may have no words, others
Two of the most common causes of night waking in children are night terrors and nightmares. Parents often get them confused but they are different, as is how they should be managed. Before we can understand night terrors and nightmares, we need to understand normal sleep. All children and adults
Associate Professor Margie Danchin is a Senior Research Fellow in the Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group (VIRGo) at Murdoch Children's Research Institute. She answers some helpful questions for parents of small children amid the recent measles cases detected in Victoria. What children are
Genetic testing has shed new light on the deaths of nearly 500 young Australians and New Zealanders who died from sudden cardiac death in a 3-year period, the New England Journal of Medicine reports today. “Sudden cardiac death in children and young adults has a devastating impact on families,
Experts say considerable improvement is needed to increase access to mental health services and address health inequities for vulnerable children including those from low income families and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. In the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) report,
Where do you get your health information from? Do you ask you friends, family members, your GP, or search the internet? Imagine for people of refugee background who are new to the country, probably can’t understand English, don’t have friends of family members who can help, have limited access
Vaccine hesitancy is now an issue of global concern. Parental concerns about the safety, efficacy and necessity of vaccines are increasing as exposure to vaccine preventable diseases decreases in Australia and other developed countries. These concerns are also driven by the increasing complexity of
Freya Harewood of the Murdoch Children's Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Group explains how one cheap and available vaccine could have significant impact on reducing the burden of illness, and potentially even allergies, in children. The vaccine in question is likely known to many Australian
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