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Embrace Big Idea 2023 Winner

Congratulations to our Rio Tinto Children's Diabetes Centre mental health and wellbeing team who, in partnership with the Embrace childhood trauma

Increased Body Mass Index during Therapy for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Significant and Underestimated Complication

We undertook a retrospective review of children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and treated with modern COG protocols to determine...

Guardian 4 sensor

The Guardian 4 sensor have recently been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration for use in Australia.

JDRF Type One Summit

The Rio Tinto Children's Diabetes Centre were invited to attend this year's JDRF Type One Summit in Sydney where the T1D community came together to "share knowledge and gain strength and inspiration from others in the T1D community - JDRF Australia"

A recipe for success in managing type 1 diabetes for teenagers

An innovative cooking program, the first of its kind in Australia, is being offered at Perth Children’s Hospital, combining nutrition education and practical cooking skills for teenagers living with type 1 diabetes (T1D).

DiabHQ and the patient portal

The Rio Tinto Children’s Diabetes Centre has recently commenced an exciting new project to integrate diabetes data from many different sources so that it can be used more effectively to help people living with diabetes. The DiabHQ project will bring together data that is currently housed in many sep

Teaching Kitchens

the Teaching Kitchens program will start again on Thursday March 9 from 5-7pm,  running for four weeks (every thursday evening).

Impact of adolescent peer aggression on later educational and employment outcomes in an Australian cohort

This study used prospective birth cohort data to analyse the relationship between peer aggression at 14 years of age and educational and employment outcomes...

Congratulations Seed Funding Recipients!

The Rio Tinto Children’s Diabetes Centre; a JDRF Global Centre of Excellence announces inaugural funding for researchers dedicated to type 1 diabetes.

Efficacy of fewer than three doses of an HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine: Combined analysis of data from the Costa Rica Vaccine and PATRICIA trials

The main aim of the study was to ascertain HPV-16/18 vaccine efficacy in both full and naive cohorts and to explore protection conferred against non-vaccine HPV

The increasing prevalence of reported diagnoses of childhood psychiatric disorders: a descriptive multinational comparison

The objective of this study is to compare the time trend of reported diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder, hyperkinetic disorder, Tourette's syndrome, and...

Prevalence and patterns of alcohol use in pregnancy in remote Western Australian communities: The Lililwan Project

Alcohol use in pregnancy is thought to be common in remote Australian communities, but no population-based data are available.

A social-ecological framework for understanding and reducing cyberbullying behaviours

While the CFS findings suggest the combined whole-school response to the mediators was somewhat effective, the study wasn't able to determine the relative...

Two methods for engaging with the community in setting priorities for child health research: Who engages?

The Western Australian Telethon Kids Institute Participation Program employs a range of methods for fostering active involvement of community members in its...

Childhood Hospitalisation with Infection and Cardiovascular Disease in Early-Mid Adulthood: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study

We investigated whether childhood infection-related hospitalisation (IRH, a marker of severity) was associated with subsequent adult CVD hospitalisation.

Vitamin D deficiency at melanoma diagnosis is associated with higher Breslow thickness

Background: Epidemiological evidence shows that people with thicker, or higher stage, melanomas have lower vitamin D status compared to those with thinner...

Ads clinic update

The Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) Adolescent Diabetes Service (ADS) clinics have had several updates thanks to your feedback, including the introduction of “Welcome to Ads group sessions” for teenagers.

Kids have a 'wild' time at diabetes camp

Kids living with type 1 diabetes got to hang out with peers and have a lot of fun at the Diabetes WA and Perth Children’s Hospital kids’ camp in Bicton recently.

Crippa's Footy Clinic

Diabetes Research Western Australia (DRWA) are inviting children aged 6-16 living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes to join West Coast Eagles forward Jamie Cripps for a fun-filled footy clinic.