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Promising results from an Australian-led clinical trial could drastically change the way we care for young children with cystic fibrosis (CF).
Three outstanding young researchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia have been named Raine Fellows and received valuable Raine Priming Grants to support their child health research.
Perth researchers have found toxic and harmful chemicals in several dozen e-cigarette liquids readily available in Australia.
Four The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers – working across diverse fields including paediatric anaesthesia, bioinformatics, ear health, and the health impacts of biodiesel exhaust – have been named as finalists in the 2021 Premier’s Science Awards.
Four outstanding The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers, including Institute Director, Professor Jonathan Carapetis AM, have been named finalists in the 2021 Western Australian of the Year Awards.
Bushfires can have a considerable impact on our health, with some symptoms lasting long after the flames are extinguished. And our children are amongst the most vulnerable.
A culturally secure health campaign designed to alert Aboriginal families, community health workers and clinicians to the dangers of a prolonged wet cough has been so successful that it could offer a blueprint for how to manage other chronic diseases affecting Aboriginal communities throughout Austr
Perth researchers are leading an international clinical trial focused on preventing the spread of COVID-19 by testing the effectiveness of the drug interferon in reducing the infectiousness of people who contract the virus.
A population of neutrophils recruited into cystic fibrosis (CF) airways is associated with proteolytic lung damage, exhibiting high expression of primary granule exocytosis marker CD63 and reduced phagocytic receptor CD16. Causative factors for this population are unknown, limiting intervention. Here we present a laboratory model to characterize responses of differentiated airway epithelium and neutrophils following respiratory infection.
Infants with cystic fibrosis (CF) develop structural lung disease early in life, and viral infections are associated with progressive lung disease. We hypothesized that the presence of respiratory viruses would be associated with structural lung disease on computed tomography (CT) of the chest in infants with CF.