One out of every 10 children with a bloodstream infection are infected with a multi-drug resistant organism in the nation’s first-ever surveillance study investigating the prevalence of paediatric antimicrobial resistance (AMR). ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2024
• August

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has launched their sixth edition of Staying healthy: Preventing infectious diseases in early childhood education and care services in a bid to tackle the transmission of germs amongst young kids. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2024
• August

A team led by Dr Joseph Kado from the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, based at Telethon Kids Institute, and The University of Western Australia (UWA) has been awarded $5 million by the Federal Government in a major push to prevent rheumatic heart disease across the Pacific. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2024
• June

Telethon Kids Institute welcomes today’s Federal Government announcement of a new pilot program to support babies showing early social communication differences in Western Australia. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2023
• April

Former West Australian Treasurer, Hon Ben Wyatt, has accepted a position on the Board of WA’s leading medical research organisation, the Telethon Kids Institute. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2021
• April