An Australian/New Zealand study examining childhood head injuries has found that children who do recreational sports like horse riding, skate boarding and bike riding are more likely to suffer serious head injuries than children ...
Aug 20, 2019
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Researchers need 3,000 Australian stutterers for an international study that is searching for the genes in human DNA which cause stuttering.
Aug 16, 2019
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A team of international scientists, including Melbourne researchers, has found blood samples can help gauge the severity of children's brain injuries, indicating which children will recover and which will need ongoing support.
Aug 5, 2019
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A new study has found that offering children a wide variety and large quantities of snack food encourages them to eat more—and this practice may be contributing to Australia's weight problem.
Jul 19, 2019
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Despite fears that Australian children are not getting enough sleep, it turns out we can rest easy.
Jul 8, 2019
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New research into children's snacking habits has found that big snacking parents may inadvertently influence their children to eat more. The researchers behind the study believe that encouraging parents to snack less could ...
Jul 8, 2019
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One of the more novel studies from the Child Health CheckPoint was the measurement of 'telomeres' – the tiny caps on each strand of our DNA, which serve to protect the ends of our chromosomes.
Jul 8, 2019
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Long, unbroken stretches of sitting time are common among Australian 11-12 year olds, according to a national snapshot of pre-teen health and disease development.
Jul 8, 2019
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The children of overweight parents are not destined to inherit their parents' weight problems, according to a new study from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Jul 8, 2019
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A parent's lung, heart and bone health all have an impact on their child by the age of 11 or 12, according to a snapshot of pre-teen health.
Jul 8, 2019
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