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Lockdowns decrease paediatric asthma presentations

03 August 2022
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Respiratory research

Lockdowns led to a dramatic decrease in the number of young people taken to Sydney hospitals for their asthma during the pandemic. These are the findings from a new study, published in Springer Nature, investigating the impact of the three COVID-19 waves in NSW on paediatric asthma-related hospital presentations. The research found a significant decline in presentations while stay-at-home rest...

Bupa Emerging Health Researcher Award now open to nominations!

27 June 2019
Research

Grants and scholarships

Calling all early career researchers! The Bupa Health Foundation aims to not only support research through funding and partnerships, but also to develop the capabilities, skills and networks of researchers to improve the translation of their findings so as to have real impact on health and care. The Bupa Health Foundation is seeking nominations for its 2019 Emerging Health Research Awa...

SPHERE Translational Research Fellowship Scheme (TRFS) is now open!

04 June 2019
Research

Grants and Scholarships

Round 2 of the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research & Enterprise (SPHERE) Translational Research Fellowship Scheme (TRFS) is now open! The SPHERE TRFS intends to support healthcare professionals/clinicians within research active units to undertake high-quality, clinically relevant research. The fellowship funding will make provisions for salary support, commensurate with the...

Keyhole surgery for appendix removal in kids leads to better outcomes

17 July 2018
Research

Research

A new study published in the Medical Journal of Australia has shown that appendix removal by keyhole surgery, known medically as laparoscopic appendicectomy, leads to better health outcomes and reduced hospitals stays for children when compared to open surgery. Led by researchers at the University of Sydney and the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, the study of 23,961 children in NSW used d...

Tackling muscular dystrophy every step of the way

20 June 2018
Research

Research

Dr Monkol Lek is a leading researcher in muscular dystrophy, a rare genetic disease affecting nerves and muscles around the body. Dr Lek is all too familiar with the disease, having suffered from muscle weakness in his legs while at university, which led, over ten years later, to a diagnosis of limb girdle muscular dystrophy. After leaving his job as a computer engineer and retraining as...

A genetic basis for non-syndromic cleft lip and palate

14 June 2018
Research

Research

Four genes which work together to cause cleft lip and palate have been identified in an international research collaboration. The NHMRC-funded project was led by Associate Professor Tony Roscioli, clinical geneticist at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and UNSW Sydney; and Professor Timothy Cox, from Seattle Children’s...

New hope for peanut allergy management in children

17 May 2018
Research

Food Allergy

Researchers at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead are developing a safer way to reduce allergic responses to peanuts in children. The new trial, led by Professor Dianne Campbell, Head of Allergy & Immunology Research Unit at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, will use peanut doses along with a dietary fibre supplement to train the body to become tolerant to peanut. “We are inte...

Risk for children undergoing repeated anaesthesia

27 April 2018
Research

Research

A study published in Pediatric Anaesthesia shows that children under four years of age exposed to anaesthesia have a greater risk of poorer development and lower scores on numeracy and reading scores. The more exposure to anaesthetics, the greater the risk, the study found. The finding is based on a data-linkage study of over 210,000 children in New South Wales, Australia. The researchers c...

Working together for a custom-made heart implant

13 April 2018
Research

Research

Improving patient outcomes through innovative solutions is crucial to advancing translational medical research, where multidisciplinary collaboration can provide the key to advancing new discoveries. A workshop hosted by the Westmead Institute for Medical Research earlier this week saw “rapid-fire” talks from clinicians, engineers and biomedical scientists to spark discussions between th...

Positive parenting to manage challenging kids with autism

04 August 2014
Research

Autism Research

The Stepping Stones Triple P is a parenting program specially tailored for parents of children with a disability. It gives parents and teachers the strategies they need to manage their children’s challenging behaviour and raise happy, confident children. Programs are usually delivered through hospitals and medical clinics, but the Kids Research Institute has been working with schools in NSW th...

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