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Award for Sun Safe app developed with teens

The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers who worked with young people to develop an app designed to help teenagers stay safe in the sun have been named joint winners of a new award for ‘Best Practice in Children’s Consultation’.

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Prestigious fellowship for pioneering researcher

Aleksandra Filipovska has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

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Mental health researcher recognised in prestigious publication award

Dr Nicole Hill and a team of co-researchers from Orygen have received the 2021 Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) award for Excellence in Medical Research.

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RSV responsible for one out of every 50 childhood deaths worldwide

The urgency for a world-first respiratory syncytial virus vaccine is at an all-time high.

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Sophisticated new modelling suggests keeping mask mandate could prevent 147,000 COVID-19 cases

WA’s current Omicron COVID-19 outbreak could jump by 147,000 cases if mask mandates are abandoned before the Easter long weekend, according to sophisticated new modelling.

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Call for national newborn screening for little-known CMV virus

Western Australian researchers advocate for a national newborn screening program for congenital CMV to prevent hearing loss and related disabilities in infants.

Parental origin of mutations

We hypothesised that MECP2 mutations occur predominantly on the male derived X chromosome.

The range of expression of symptoms in girls and women with Rett syndrome

We wanted to describe the range and variability in the expression of symptoms in girls and women with Rett syndrome.

The diagnosis of autism in a female: could it be Rett syndrome?

We compared the symptoms and genetic characteristics of girls with Rett syndrome and both with and without initial diagnosis of autism.