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Thinking of doing an Honours project in biomedical or clinical research in 2017? Would you like to be part of the most thriving research precincts in Sydney at Westmead? Kids Research Institute is part of the The Westmead Research Hub, which has three medical research institutes, two major teaching hospitals and a strong University presence on campus. The Westmead Medical Science Honours...

Children with epilepsy experience vulnerability, disempowerment and discrimination according to a review of international studies by researchers from Kids Research Institute at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, along with colleagues from the University of Sydney and the University of NSW. ‘Children’s Experiences of Epilepsy: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies’, published in Pediatrics,...

Congratulations to A/Prof Kristine Macartney and team on being awarded a NHMRC-funded Partnership Project for Reducing vaccine preventable diseases in children: using national active hospital-based surveillance to evaluate and improve immunisation program performance. This project is aimed at improving immunisation programs to effectively and equitably prevent illness and death due to t...

 Researchers at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead are calling for a more unified international definition of paediatric metabolic syndrome (MetS) to help identify childhood cancer survivors who are more at risk of cardiovascular disease. The Hospital’s clinicians joined researchers from Sydney University and Sweden’s Linkoping University to conduct a retrospective study of 276 patients...