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Cutting-edge work is offering new hope to children with Cystic Fibrosis.

A child can’t thrive if they don’t have a roof over their head.

Despite the risk of having a hypo (low blood glucose levels), Gina said she refused to let T1D stop her from exercising.

A ground-breaking new app developed by The Kids researchers may soon make exercising safer for young people with type 1 diabetes.

In early 2021, The Kids Research Institute Australia researcher Dr Amy Finlay-Jones led a global team in trying to answer that question to help better prioritise mental health spending.

A dramatic rise in food allergies over the past 20 years had Australian medical professionals scratching their heads, with three in every ten babies born each year developing food-related allergy or eczema.

Between 1989 and 1991, almost 3,000 WA babies were recruited to the Raine Study - an ambitious research project which would yield a series of paradigm-shifting findings that changed scientific thinking. Three decades on, it has also changed the lives of those taking part.

The Yawardani Jan-ga Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL) research project, headed by Professor Juli Coffin in WA’s Kimberley region, is steadily growing its capacity to support the social, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of Aboriginal young people through the powerful medium of horses.

The Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort (Our Children, Our Heart) Project grew out of a bold vision to harness the wisdom of Aboriginal Elders to improve outcomes for Aboriginal children, producing a suite of Elder-led, culturally appropriate and empowering initiatives that are making a difference.

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) cover a range of methods used to help couples with fertility problems achieve pregnancy, including in-vitro fertilisation (IVF).