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Wet cough prevalence among Aboriginal children ‘concerningly high’The Kids Research Institute Australia and Perth Children’s Hospital clinician-researchers have found more than one in ten children across four remote Kimberley communities have protracted bacterial bronchitis.

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The Kids calls for urgent removal of kids on NauruThe Kids Research Institute Australia is calling for the immediate removal of all refugee and asylum seeker children and their families from Nauru.

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The Kids communicator recognised for public health leadershipCongratulations to The Kids Director of Communications and Development, Elizabeth Chester, who has been recognised at the Public Health Association of Australia WA awards for her outstanding effort progressing public health.

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WA parents oblivious to true danger of the fluPerth parents are underestimating the serious consequences of the flu, with only 19 per cent of children under five years of age currently immunized against the virus ahead of the peak winter flu season.

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Preventing RHD through community-driven activitiesHealth activities driven by remote Indigenous communities may be key to the sustainable and successful treatment and prevention of a potentially fatal disease, a study has found.

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Thinking big to tackle kids’ brain developmentIf there’s one thing modern researchers and health professionals now understand, it’s that for so many diseases and conditions affecting children and adolescents, early intervention is crucial.

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Australia-first mapping tool to improve service delivery to children and families launchedData on Western Australian children’s health, learning, development and social characteristics will be mapped using geospatial technology so that community leaders and service providers can identify the priority issues for their children.

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ORIGINS reaches key milestoneORIGINS, a collaboration between The Kids and the Joondalup Health Campus, has achieved a major milestone – recruiting its 1000th family.

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Perth mums play instrumental part in world-first vaccineNew mothers in Perth are teaming up with researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia in a global bid to develop the first vaccine to prevent Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) disease.

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Very preterm babies at risk of declining lung function throughout childhoodA The Kids Research Institute Australia study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health has found that survivors of very preterm birth face declining lung function