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Hear the facts about vaccination and infectious disease from some of Australia's leading experts: Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Dr Peter Richmond
The State Government has launched a new strategy for improving immunisation rates among WA children, to prevent outbreaks of diseases like measles & meningitis
Hundreds of healthy volunteers are needed in Perth to test the effectiveness of a current 'flu vaccine.
Just under 150 Perth women have contributed to major international research at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.
Perth researchers have begun a trial to test the effectiveness of a new vaccine to protect against the potentially deadly bird flu.
The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research today announced a new study investigating a vaccine to prevent infection of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).
In Australia the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) is administered at 2, 4 and 6 months of age, with no booster dose.
Concerns about the risk of inducing immune deviation-associated "neonatal tolerance" as described in mice have restricted the widespread adoption...
Increased numbers of children presenting with febrile adverse events following trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) were noted in Australia in 2010.
Despite the use of measles vaccine, measles virus continues to circulate and cause severe disease