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Childcare centres have flocked to take up a new evidence-based policy to help ensure young children get more of the physical activity they need to be healthy and developmentally on track.

A new study is helping to identify treatment options to improve the lung function of premature babies, after it was determined survivors of preterm birth were at risk of declining lung health.

The Perioperative Medicine team has developed a unique chewable tablet that gives the child the sensation of having a full stomach, without compromising their fasting regime.

Helping children build resilience and cope with the trauma associated with medical emergencies and chronic health conditions is the focus of a promising pilot program being undertaken by The Kids Research Institute Australia.

Western Australia’s first bacteriophage manufacturing facility has been opened in a significant development that brings patients battling antibiotic-resistant infections a step closer to life-saving phage therapy.

Scientific discoveries over the past 30 years mean doctors now have a deeper understanding of what causes disease and how those diseases might progress.

Sports coaches across Australia can now access WA-designed sport resources, which aim to help coaches better understand type 1 diabetes (T1D) and encourage children living with the condition to stay in sport.

The WAACHS regional profiles look at all four volumes of results across the ATSIC regions of Western Australia.

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The in-vivo plasma concentration of penicillin needed to prevent Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis, recurrent acute rheumatic fever, and progressive rheumatic heart disease is not known. We used a human challenge model to assess the minimum penicillin concentration required to prevent streptococcal pharyngitis.

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Vietnam, as one of the countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion, has committed to eliminating all malaria by 2030. Declining case numbers highlight the country's progress, but challenges including imported cases and pockets of residual transmission remain. To successfully eliminate malaria and to prevent reintroduction of malaria transmission, geostatistical modelling of vulnerability (importation rate) and receptivity (quantified by the reproduction number) of malaria is critical.