Parents of children born prematurely have expressed concerns about their child’s lung health when they exercise, with symptoms such as breathlessness. ...

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• 2020
• November

The hearts of everyone at Telethon Kids go out to the family and friends of Lachlan Hernaman, a long-term participant in lung health research who died suddenly on April 30. ...

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• 2019
• May

Telethon Kids Institute researchers have been awarded 12 grants in the latest round of funding from the WA Child Health Research Fund (formerly the Telethon-Perth Children’s Hospital Research Fund). ...

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• 2021
• October

When Samuel and James Considine were born in October 2003, perilously close to what the medical world describes as the limit of viability, each weighed just 700 grams and could fit into the palm of their father’s hand. ...

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• 2018
• July

A lung function study carried out by Dr Shannon Simpson provided the most comprehensive follow-up of very pre-term children of any study so far carried out on the lung health of this vulnerable group. ...

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• 2018
• July