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While school sores – or impetigo – is a treatable condition, if left untreated it can lead to much more serious illness such as kidney and heart disease.
Around 300 babies and children are diagnosed with a stroke in Australia each year. But these can be diagnosed too late with devastating and life-long consequences.
Why hasn’t there been an improvement in survival in the last 30 years for patients with brain cancers?
Leukaemia used to be a death sentence. Now, the survival rate for the most common form in children is 85%. We can apply similar strategies to how we approach childhood brain cancer.
While there are similarities in the general principles of palliative care provided to children and adults, there are also key differences.
Some parents think their four-year-old boy’s emotional outbursts and aggressive behaviour can be blamed on their hormones. Here’s why that’s a myth.
It can be very hard for people to accept that they – or their family member – are not to blame for their mental illness. Seeing the evidence in a scan can make a difference.
Children with glue ear constantly struggle to hear at school, which may leave them frustrated, disengaged and unlikely to reach their full potential.
A new study highlights the stark difference in living conditions experienced by old- and new-world working-class adults in the Victorian era.
As Canadian kids head back to school this week, many will be hungry. Lacking fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods, they will suffer mood problems, disease and low academic performance.
Girls in primary school are just as physically capable as their male classmates, our research shows.
The high-profile Charlie Gard case could change the way end-of-life decisions play out around the world.
As the latest controversy about tunnel exhaust stacks and respiratory health plays out in the media, some community members are proposing solutions that just don’t make sense.
There’s more to Tourette syndrome than swearing and shouting. Over the last several years, many life-altering treatments of this tic disorder have become available to patients and their families.
Having trouble getting your kids to eat? Here are six things you could do at the table, and before, to make meal times a bit less stressful.
Hospitals sometimes recommend women express milk towards the end of their pregnancies. But it’s not suitable for all.
New research into the health of newly arrived refugee children in Australia gives us clues about how we can help all refugee kids.
It is our view vitamin “gummies” that contain food acids, and have a high sugar content, are not medicines consumers need and their sale should be prohibited on public health grounds.
Lunchtime is one more lesson on what a healthy meal should look like.
Top contributors
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Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Manager, Brisbane Catholic Education & Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct), Charles Sturt University
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Team Leader, Telethon Kids Institute
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Chancellor's Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor (conjoint), Children's Cancer Institute
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Paediatrician and Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Paediatrics & Child Health and Director of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, University of Sydney
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Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Law, Deakin University
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Principal Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Director, Center for Community Child Health Royal Children's Hospital; Professor, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Theme Director Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
