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2016 Influenza Vaccine Early Report: good safety profile in children

17 May 2016

With winter coming soon, it’s time for parents and children to be vaccinated against influenza to be vaccinated against influenza now. Influenza is a viral respiratory illness that is responsible for thousands of children and adults of all ages each year being admitted to hospital in Australia. Active vaccine safety surveillance is conducted nationally in young children to monitor fo...

Obesity Trends - new research

13 May 2016

SEVERE OBESITY AFFECTING MORE AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN THAN FIRST THOUGHT, NEW RESEARCH FINDS The findings, published today in Trends in the Prevalence of Morbid and Severe Obesity in Australian Children Aged 7-15 Years (1985-2012), highlight a growing concern from paediatric obesity experts about the extent of the issue. “The numbers on how many Australian children have severe obesity hav...

Leading Cancer Researchers Honoured

11 August 2015
Leading Cancer Researchers Honoured

Two teams from the Children’s Cancer Research Unit at Kids Research Institute, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, were honoured at the 2015 Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research. A/Prof Dan Catchpoole was awarded the Big Data, Big Impact Award ($60,000), and Dr Geoff McCowage, Dr Belinda Kramer and Prof Ian Alexander were awarded the Excellence in Translational Cancer Research Awa...

Unique Opportunity for Young People

30 June 2015

research advisory group

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s research division, Kids Research Institute, is introducing a Research Advisory Group made up of children and young people aged 12 to 17. The advisory group, to be known as KiDS Sydney, will provide a meeting place to talk about various aspects of research that involves children and young people. There will be opportunity to connect with similar groups a...

Study to help prevent blindness in optic neuritis patients

30 June 2015
preventing blindness

Preventing blindness

Researchers at the Kids Research Institute may soon be able to save the vision of adults and children suffering from optic neuritis thanks to a new study that will allow them to provide better treatments to patients based on an antibody in the blood. The nationwide study, titled MOG antibody: a biomarker of bilateral and relapsing optic neuritis, will involve testing patients with recurring op...

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