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This study explores the role of infant sleep in early childhood development.

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Food and nutrition in pregnancyA healthy and balanced diet is important if you’re pregnant or planning a pregnancy.

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Recruitment of active participants comes to an end for ORIGINSORIGINS has officially reached the study's five-year goal of recruiting 4,000 active participants to the project and has closed recruitment of new families into the active cohort.

RHINO researchers from The Kids' Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre, will analyse ORIGINS data and turn it into meaningful respiratory and allergy outcome data that can be used by researchers around the world.

The Kids has a range of specialised expertise, tools, platforms and technology to undertake cutting-edge science.

The ORIGINS Team is studying early environments and parental physical health and genetics to uncover when and why non-communicable diseases (NCDs) develop.

At The Kids Research Institute Australia our researchers are searching for answers to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families.
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Food AllergyFood allergies have become more common in our community, with up to one in ten young children now affected. Reactions can range from mild hives to life threatening anaphylaxis and breathing difficulties. The most common food allergies are to egg, peanut, tree nuts, cow’s milk, fish, shellfish, sesame, wheat and soy.

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Whooping cough vaccine could be a new weapon in the fight against food allergiesResearchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia and Curtin University will use a $3.9 million grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council to investigate whether a type of whooping cough vaccine could provide bonus protection against food allergies and eczema.