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A landmark national study led by the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University on the standard of healthcare for children in Australia has found children receive care in-line with clinical practice guideline recommendations on average 60 percent (59.8%) of the time for 17 common medical conditions. The CareTrack Kids study published today in the Journal of the American...

The Hon Gladys Berejiklian MP, Premier for NSW and the Hon Brad Hazzard MP, Minister for Health and Medical Research today officially opened the Clinical Research Centre at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Based within Kids Research, the state of the art Clinical Research Centre (CRC) was constructed as part of the Westmead Redevelopment project and is a purpose built paediatric clinical t...

“Poor cognitive and educational outcomes can have some serious and long-term consequences for children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease” says Dr. Kerry Chen from the Centre for Kidney Research, and the Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney.   Under the umbrella of the Kids' Health and Wealth Study (KCAD), Dr Chen and colleagues reviewed observati...

Dr Wendy Gold, researcher for the NSW Centre for Rett syndrome Research at Kids Research, has received a generous donation of $10,000 from the Rett Syndrome Association of Australia (RSAA), to further her group’s work on the genetic disease. Wendy's primary research goal is to better understand the molecular genetics of Rett syndrome, which is seen almost always in girls.  She hopes to ...