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Back to school: How to pack a healthy lunchbox to keep your child fuelled up for learning and playSummer holidays are nearly over, and with that, the never-ending requests for snacks that seem to come all day, every day.
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Five-year Hedland FASD Project wraps upA five-year, $5 million research program funded by BHP and aimed at reducing the prevalence and impact of FASD in the Pilbara officially wrapped in South Hedland last night.
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Grandparent education linked to grandkids’ NAPLAN resultsThe effects of educational advantage or disadvantage get handed down through the generations according to a new study by researchers at the The Kids.
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New ten-year action plan on FASD provides welcome supportResearchers into fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) have welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of a ten-year national action plan that will drive efforts to reduce the impact of FASD on individuals, families and communities.
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Churchill Fellow to explore how other countries get kids back to schoolThe Kids Research Institute Australia researcher Dr Kirsten Hancock will use a prestigious Churchill Fellowship to investigate how other countries handle school absenteeism.
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Replication of rare aggressive brain cancer could pave the way for better treatmentsIn an Australian-first, The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have developed a new tool that could improve outcomes for children with a highly aggressive type of brain cancer.
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NHMRC grants to benefit vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young peopleTwo leading The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers will use more than $1.1 million in National Health and Medical Research Council funding to improve outcomes for some of the world’s most vulnerable children and young people.
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The Kids study hopes to help kids with neuromuscular disorders sleep more easilyMackenzie was 10 months old when her parents, Jodie and Scott, were given the life-changing news that their daughter would never walk.