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Childhood respiratory treatments will change following a breakthrough study involving University of Queensland researchers that improves care standards and reduces healthcare costs.

As a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Specialist with the Queensland Children’s Hospital and an Academic Title Holder (ATH) with the UQ Child Health Research Centre, Dr Chawla explores new treatments for children with neurodisabilities, including Down syndrome, and educates medical students.

Many would expect a mathematics and information technology graduate to step into the world of finance, software or technology. For Associate Professor Kristen Gibbons, maths plus IT equalled a career in medical research.

Like astronomers connected and grouped stars in the sky, Professor Craig Munns, Director of the Child Health Research Centre and Head of Mayne Academy of Paediatrics and Child Health, is linking and arranging an interdisciplinary team of stars into surprising constellations to undertake paediatric research.

Two professors from The University of Queensland’s Faculty of Medicine have been elected as new Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS).

Australia’s first dedicated children’s immunotherapy centre will investigate treatments to not only increase the survival of kids with cancer, but also to improve their ongoing quality of life.

University of Queensland researchers are calling for screening of perinatal depression (PND) for all women during pregnancy, after finding women with persistent depression are at high risk of developing the condition.

In some Australian states, children can legally be detained from the age of ten years old. This has led to over-policing and over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. First Nations children represent 50% of youth incarcerated during 2021.

Medical researchers have gained a better understanding of how nitric oxide gas impacts children during and after heart surgery following the world’s largest study of its kind.

A clinical study examining new ways of treating children with sepsis - using vitamin C and steroids alongside antibiotics - could save children’s lives around the world.

New mums can access free online self-care resources to help them cope with the challenges of motherhood, as part of an ongoing research trial by The University of Queensland.

Hereditary factors are partly responsible for childhood anxiety and depression that persists into adulthood, according to University of Queensland researchers.

Queensland children affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will soon have earlier access to additional diagnostic and support services, which could give them better long-term outcomes.

You walk into a room. You are going to play a game. Your competitors? Other parents.

A year after a brain injury, most children look and sound normal. However, many are still struggling to re-learn things they previously understood easily.

Victorian premier Daniel Andrews said on Thursday the state had recorded 723 new COVID-19 cases, a huge jump from the 295 new daily cases announced the day before.

State and federal minsters involved in the Forum on Food Regulation will tomorrow vote on whether or not to introduce mandatory alcohol pregnancy warning labels in Australia and New Zealand.

Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with “pandemic potential” in China that can jump from pigs to humans, triggering a suite of worrying headlines.

Ultra-rapid genetic testing can transform the diagnosis and treatment of critically ill children with suspected genetic conditions, according to an Australian Genomics study.

Scientists around the world are continuing to test countless vaccines and drugs in the hope of finding effective ways to prevent and treat COVID-19.