We are excited to announce that applications are now open for our 2023 Seed Funding grants.  The Rio Tinto Children’s Diabetes Centre; A JDRF Global Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Research (Global CoE) has competitive seed funding grants available for new projects. ...

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The WA Youth Awards 2023 ...

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Photo (clockwise from top-left): Dr Craig Taplin, Mx Rigel Paciente, Ms Heather Roby, Dr Keely Bebbington, Dr Alix Woolard. ...

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Embrace 2023 Research Award winners Zoe Waters and Pulan Bai. ...

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Professor Ashleigh Lin was nominated for the Mid-Career Scientist of the Year. ...

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The 2023 Australian guideline for assessing and managing cardiovascular disease risk provides updated evidence-based recommendations for the clinical assessment and management of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk for primary prevention. It includes the new Australian CVD risk calculator based on an equation developed from a large New Zealand cohort study, customised and recalibrated for the Australian population. The new guideline replaces the 2012 guideline that recommended CVD risk assessment using the Framingham risk equation.  ...

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To identify and review key research advances from the literature published between 2019 and 2023 on the diagnosis and microbiology of otitis media (OM) including acute otitis media (AOM), recurrent AOM (rAOM), otitis media with effusion (OME), chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) and AOM complications (mastoiditis).  ...

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Five Telethon Kids Institute researchers working across diverse and highly impactful areas of child health research have been named as finalists for the 2023 Premier’s Science Awards. ...

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• 2023
• July

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is an important and preventable cause of morbidity and mortality among children and young adults in low-income and middle-income countries, as well as among certain at-risk populations living in high-income countries. The 2012 World Heart Federation echocardiographic criteria provided a standardized approach for the identification of RHD and facilitated an improvement in early case detection. ...

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• 2023
• November 2023

This document updates the 2005 European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) technical standard for the measurement of lung volumes. The 2005 document integrated the recommendations of an ATS/ERS task force with those from an earlier National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop that led to the publication of background papers between 1995 and 1999 and a consensus workshop report with more in-depth descriptions and discussion. ...

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