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It's been a huge year for those working to eliminate rheumatic heart disease (RHD), with breakthroughs including $35M in funding to develop a Strep A vaccine.

Paediatric respiratory physician and The Kids researcher André Schultz has had to wait more than a decade to test out a simple idea.

A 1970s initiative which saw midwives begin collecting key data about all births in Western Australia has been crucial to new findings about stillbirth.

Telethon Kids Institute researchers believe a public education campaign, like the one SIDS, would help to reduce the number of babies who are stillborn.

Embrace – a new research collaboration based at The Kids – will bring a new focus to understanding and improving the mental health of children and young people.

One of the biggest problems facing young people with neuromuscular disorders is the risk of breathing problems caused by muscle weakness during sleep.

Newborn babies and their fragile immune systems struggle to fight off nasty infections such as septicaemia, pneumonia and gastroenteritis.

Babies are most vulnerable to life-threatening diseases in their first few weeks of life, yet current vaccines can’t be given until two months of age.

The Kids Research Institute Australia is now part of an ambitious, yet achievable, global bid to produce such one-shot vaccines.

A $5 million commitment from BHP has allowed The Kids researchers and Aboriginal communities to make FASD history in the Pilbara.