HealthTimes - 01-04-2019

Only around 5% of children in NSW eat enough vegetables. In an effort to change this statistic, primary schools across NSW will be coming together to encourage

HealthTimes - 29-03-2019

Each year more than 40,000 people have their tonsils out – it is the most common elective childhood operation in Australia – but this number could be reduced

HealthTimes - 05-03-2019

Researchers and health professionals have produced the first rehabilitation guidelines in Australia to help children who have had a stroke*. Somewhere between 100 to

HealthTimes - 06-02-2019

New research has found a positive and significant association between cardiorespiratory fitness and academic achievement, meaning the fitter you are the higher your grades.

AAP - 26-11-2018

Tasmania's health department is urging pregnant women to get vaccinated against whooping cough after a recent spike in the disease. Pregnant

HealthTimes - 10-10-2018

New University of Sydney research shows bottles, dummies, and thumb sucking in the early years of life do not cause or worsen phonological impairment, the most common type

HealthTimes - 10-08-2018

University of the Sunshine Coast researchers are about to embark on the most ambitious long-term study of the adolescent brain, and they’re calling on 500 local youths

HealthTimes - 20-07-2018

Researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) have found a link between the mental health of five year olds and their ability to learn at school.

AAP - 08-06-2018

Removing a child's tonsils and adenoids is associated with significant long-term risks of respiratory, allergic and infectious diseases, a study has found.

AAP - 23-05-2018

An over-sterile germ-free environment in the first year of life is one of the major causal factors behind childhood