Paediatrics

A world-first push to tighten safety standards around mattress firmness is hoped to prevent infants from dying in their sleep. Australia was the first nation

The vaccine advisory panel reconstituted by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr said it would study the schedule of childhood and adolescent immunisations and review the

Australian children and teenagers face the biggest impacts of an international shortage of critical ADHD medications. The nation's health regulator says

Australian school curriculum guidelines have been updated, and any activities involving calorie counting, body

Parents of sick children will be able to escalate their concerns more easily following a sharp rise in preventable deaths and cases of serious harm in Victoria's hospitals.

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

Australian health authorities are warning parents to stop feeding their babies three brands of formula as they may be contaminated with dangerous bacteria.

When many people think about working in critical care, they might think about the adrenaline rush of working in situations that unfold rapidly and unpredictably – and

Children with documented child protection concerns are four times as likely to die before they reach their 16th birthday, according to confronting new research from the University

A spotlight is being shone again on the confronting topic of intergenerational abuse, with one expert calling for urgent intervention and funding to help break the cycle and

For the first time in Australia, researchers can accurately predict if babies are at risk of childhood obesity by the age of eight to nine years of age. Researchers

Blood pressure measurements in children and adolescents should be taken from both arms after new research showed substantial differences could be seen depending on which arm

A rise in vaccine-resistant bacteria shows the need for a new vaccine to fight childhood empyema after a spike in hospitalisations, a new UNSW study reveals.

Queensland’s first large-scale study of all sudden infant deaths to date has identified key factors contributing to the state’s persistently high annual death

A new resource has been launched to help clinicians implement best-practice guidelines for the diagnosis of autism, with hopes this will lead to earlier access to intervention

Getting as many children as possible learning to swim is the goal of ‘Swim It Forward’, an initiative of Swim Australia that seeks to help Australian families

New research using New Zealand’s largest longitudinal study of child development has identified key behaviours to support pre-school children to develop self-control,

On 9 February 2014, the open-cut brown coal mine servicing the Hazelwood power station in the Latrobe Valley caught fire due to nearby bushfires. The coal mine fire burned

Molly* and her husband Joe* never really considered becoming foster carers. Already parents to four biological children, it wasn’t something they knew or thought much

A play-based therapy aimed at helping parents manage children’s behaviour has seen long-lasting results in a live trial. Parents of young toddlers with