More than 80,000 Australian children are expected to benefit as 700 childcare centres across the country trial a new program aimed at boosting declining physical activity levels. ...

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Three outstanding Telethon Kids Institute researchers have been named finalists in the 2016 Premier's Science Awards ...

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Research into the potential health impacts of vaping is starting to back up concerns that electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are not as benign as ...

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Vaccination trials in high endemicity areas are needed to provide evidence and guidance on idea strategies to protect children in these areas against infections ...

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The similarities in risk factors and in the adjusted rates of victimisation-related injury admission in both countries suggest that the VR cluster of ICD-10... ...

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Professor Donna Cross and her team at the Telethon Kids Institute have challenged and overturned damaging attitudes that saw bullying tolerated in childhood. ...

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The Telethon Kids Institute's Australian Early Development Census has become the world's first proven and reliable measure of early childhood development. ...

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The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation and New Zealand Ministry of Health recommend all children aged ≥ 5 years receive either of the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines: Comirnaty (Pfizer), available in both Australia and New Zealand, or Spikevax (Moderna), available in Australia only. Both vaccines are efficacious and safe in the general population, including children. Children and adolescents undergoing treatment for cancer and immunosuppressive therapy for non-malignant haematological conditions are particularly vulnerable, with an increased risk of severe or fatal COVID-19. ...

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The RHD Endgame Strategy: the blueprint to eliminate rheumatic heart disease in Australia by 2031 (the Endgame Strategy) is the blueprint to eliminate rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in Australia by 2031. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people live with one of the highest per capita burdens of RHD in the world. ...

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Valerie Verhasselt VV MD, PhD Head, Immunology and Breastfeeding 0402997617 Valerie.verhasselt@telethonkids.org.au Head, Immunology and ...

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