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The Zero Childhood Cancer program has released initial results of its national clinical trial, revealing promising outcomes within its first 12 months.   Of the 128 children enrolled in the trial from across Australia with high-risk and relapsed cancers, 67% were provided with personalised treatment plans aimed at killing their unique cancer cells. For most children enrolled in the trial,...

The NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health (CRE) is a brand new Australia-wide collaboration bringing together a team of interdisciplinary researchers led by the University of Sydney’s Professors Kate Steinbeck, Rachel Skinner, Angus Dawson and Louise Baur. The CRE will explore the opportunities, challenges and costs of working with adolescents and their families to make health...

Findings into the safety of Epidiolex®, an experimental cannabis-based treatment for severe drug-resistant epilepsy in children, have been published in the Medical Journal of Australia. Under the NSW Government funded Compassionate Access Scheme, children with the most severe forms of childhood epilepsy, who are too sick to participate in a clinical trial, have an opportunity to access a canna...

A recent study published in Paediatric Nephrology has shown that children who receive a kidney transplant are more likely to need a blood transfusion following surgery if they have low pre-transplant haemoglobin levels. Blood transfusions following a transplant can cause adverse reactions, including increasing the chance of rejection of the donor kidney, stimulated by an immune response to don...