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Data reveals important clues about child abuse and neglectResearchers working on the Developmental Pathways Project are determined to find out what makes families vulnerable to child abuse and neglect.
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International expert to bring together WA leaders to improve outcomes for kidsDr Jack Shonkoff, from Harvard University is visiting Perth this week as a guest of CoLab, Goodstart Early Learning and Child Australia.
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Playgroup Week celebrates importance of early childhood interventionNational Playgroup Week, the annual event run by Playgroup Australia, will take place across the country from 20 March to 27 March.
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Starting & staying on track10 years of work guided by The Kids Research Institute Australia has resulted in huge improvements in the development of Aboriginal children at the start of school.
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New research partnership to ensure no child gets left behindResearchers will track the progress of 12,000 children from birth to age five to identify what services are valuable to families to support the health and wellb
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Australian kids doing better in key development indicatorsAustralian 5 year olds are developing better than they were three years ago and have improved in most development indicators, according to the latest AEDI data.
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Telethon Institute researcher in nation's top tenHead of nutrition research at Perth's The Kids for Child Health Research named in the nation's top 10 health and medical researchers for 2010.
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Birthweight and the risk of childhood-onset type 1 diabetesWe investigated whether children who are heavier at birth have an increased risk of type 1 diabetes
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Development of the breastfed infant oral microbiome over the first two years of life in the BLOSOM CohortAcquisition and development of the oral microbiome are dynamic processes that occur over early life. This study aimed to characterize the temporal development of the oral microbiome of predominantly breastfed infants during the first two years of life.
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RSV: an update on prevention and managementRespiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of respiratory tract infections in infants and young children, and adults over 60 years of age. Infants born prematurely, adults aged over 75 years, individuals with medical conditions such as chronic cardiac or respiratory disease, or obesity, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are at increased risk of severe RSV disease.