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New suicide prevention guidelines point the way to better care for LGBTQA+ young people

We have developed best-practice suicide prevention guidelines for health professionals and community service providers to help them create safe spaces for LGBTQA+ young people.

'We can’t unknow what we’ve learned about Banksia Hill'

The Kids Research Institute Australia has been among a growing number of voices passionately advocating for an overhaul of the way young people in detention are managed in Western Australia.

How in-language health messages are being used to tackle FASD

Researchers have worked with communities to come up with a tangible, practical legacy to improve the policy architecture and clinical approaches to drinking during pregnancy

How a simple treatment is helping to give premature bubs a better start

Coconut oil has been used on premature babies to help fight off deadly infections. Researchers are now hoping to prove it is effective for other conditions as well.

Memory wiping technique opens new frontiers in stem cell medicine

In 2006, when a Japanese scientist building on the earlier work of a British biologist discovered a way to reprogram adult cells into other cell types – making them ‘pluripotent’ – the scientific world was entranced.

Learning to cope with uncertainty

A small group program to help parents tackle anxiety in young children diagnosed with autism has found significant improvements in both children’s anxiety and parental mental health and wellbeing.

Applying the arts to wild little hearts

When author Maurice Sendak first sketched out the story of a rambunctious little boy sent to his room without supper, there’s no way he could have known his rollercoaster tale of childhood imagination would still be speaking to the hearts of wild young things more than six decades on.

Community and action at the heart of Journey Together project

A unique initiative is combining research, action and advocacy to deliver evidence- based improvements to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal families in Perth and Western Australia’s north west.

Unravelling medical mysteries for kids with undiagnosed diseases

Three hundred and fifty million people live with an undiagnosed disease worldwide and three quarters of them are children.

Putting malaria on the MAP

The Kids Research Institute Australia is at the forefront of a global effort to track and prevent malaria – one of the world’s leading causes of disease and child deaths, particularly in developing countries.