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Measuring disease and injury burden in populations requires a composite metric that captures both premature mortality and the prevalence and severity of...

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This consensus statement recommends eight high-level trackable policy actions most likely to significantly improve health and wellbeing for children and young people by 2030. These policy actions include an overarching policy action and span seven interconnected domains that need to be adequately resourced for every young person to thrive: Material basics; Valued, loved and safe; Positive sense of identity and culture; Learning and employment pathways; Healthy; Participating; and Environments and sustainable futures.

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To evaluate the suitability of the Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI)-2012 other/mixed and GLI-2022 global reference equations for evaluating the respiratory capacity of First Nations Australians. 

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As our Founding Director Fiona Stanley puts it, The Kids Research Institute Australia was formed on a "wing and a prayer".

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The first rigorous trial of a pre-emptive behavioural intervention for babies showing early signs of autism has found the therapy can improve early language development.

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Can resilience improve health outcomes in Aboriginal young people? That question will be explored by The Kids Research Institute Australia researcher Clair Scrine.

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The Kids researcher Dr Hannah Moore has been named Woodside Early Career Scientist of the Year at the 2015 Premier's Science Awards.

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Researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia will establish a national framework to tackle Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

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Researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia have found daughters born to older mothers have higher rates of some mental health problems.

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New research highlights the long-term physical health problems faced by people who survive drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) .

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Teaching a class of year eleven students about nutrition ten years ago is what gave Dr Gina Trapp the idea for her research.

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Promising results from an Australian-led clinical trial could drastically change the way we care for young children with cystic fibrosis (CF).

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The functional effects of increased ERBB4 activation identify ERBB4 as a potential prognostic and therapeutic target

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More than 30 years of research into the links between folate and neural tube defects has paid off for The Kids Research Institute Australia researcher Professor Carol Bower.

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We discovered a previously unknown major resistance mechanism in glioma in that most EGFR domain III-targeting antibodies do not neutralize EGFRvIII

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Research by The Kids Research Institute Australia shows a link between low vitamin D during pregnancy and post-natal depression.

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A summary of the literature regarding the use of adjunctive protein synthesis inhibitors for toxin suppression in the setting of S. aureus infections is presented

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Early 7vPCV schedules have limited impact on pneumococcal vaccine type carriage in PNG

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A study by The Kids Research Institute Australia and the University of Western Australia is exploring the reasons why women are delaying pregnancy into their thirties.

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This project will investigate the effects of the time interval between pregnancies (interpregnancy interval), family size and other sociodemographic factors on child development outcomes at age five.