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A small group program to help parents tackle anxiety in young children diagnosed with autism has found significant improvements in both children’s anxiety and parental mental health and wellbeing.

It’s a brave move to upend your entire family to seek a fresh start – or safety – in a new country: even braver when the country you’re moving to has a completely different language, structure and cultural outlook.

A unique initiative is combining research, action and advocacy to deliver evidence- based improvements to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal families in Perth and Western Australia’s north west.

Three hundred and fifty million people live with an undiagnosed disease worldwide and three quarters of them are children.

More than 80,000 Australian children are expected to benefit from a trial being rolled out to 700 childcare centres across the country that aims to boost declining physical activity levels.

The Kids Research Institute Australia is at the forefront of a global effort to track and prevent malaria – one of the world’s leading causes of disease and child deaths, particularly in developing countries.

What if researchers could shop for different data to help uncover how, when and why chronic conditions such as asthma, obesity, allergies and poor mental health develop?

The following maps highlight the Indigenous suicide rate trends over time (from 2001 to 2012) in different regions of Australia.

In 2006, when a Japanese scientist building on the earlier work of a British biologist discovered a way to reprogram adult cells into other cell types – making them ‘pluripotent’ – the scientific world was entranced.

When author Maurice Sendak first sketched out the story of a rambunctious little boy sent to his room without supper, there’s no way he could have known his rollercoaster tale of childhood imagination would still be speaking to the hearts of wild young things more than six decades on.