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Join us on 12 Sep to learn about Prof Dinah Reddihough's professional journey as an accomplished paediatrician involved in the clinical care of children with disabilities. See more: paedacademy.medicine.unimelb.edu.au/events/2420 UniMelb MDHS

Despite paying to make this paper open access, the publishers (Elsevier) are selling access via third party distributors. And the contract allows them to do so! If circulated widely to the global CF community no one should need to pay. journals.lww.com/co-pulmonaryme…

Vertebral stem cells produce proteins attracted to cancer cells and are likely the reason why certain cancers like breast and prostate cancer metastasise to bone. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Prof. Yati and Prof. Soenarto, esteemed colleagues from Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia were integral over 40 yrs of collaboration to the development of the rotavirus vaccine and the latest RV3-BB vaccine. We thanked them today for visiting us.

A real privilege to take on the challenge of this new role. Thanks for the opportunity.

Oh dear! It’s been a hot year so far. The hottest on record.

The Covid-19 anti-viral drug, Molnupiravir, seemed to result in new mutations and increased the genetic diversity in the surviving viral population. This needs to be taken into account for the development of new drugs which work on the viral genetic code. rdcu.be/dmZnh

This octopus sucker-inspired buccal stretching device could one day provide a route for drug delivery without injection which would be a boon especially for children: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37756378/

I think that the British figures on teenage vaping are pretty grim.

Congratulations Susan Sawyer AM for your contribution to this.

Congratulations to PhD student, Jiaxin Zhang, whose paper "Sensitivity analysis methods for outcome missingness assumptions in causal inference: accommodating the substantive analysis” received the Student Conference Award by the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics.

Very few of you could be excited by 37 minutes of discussion on preschool wheezing but just in case…..

The Melbourne Children’s Campus has produced these excellent clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety in children and young people: mentalhealth.melbournechildrens.com/media/elwh4zdn…

Read about these new clinical practice guidelines for anxiety in children and young people, and other relevant comments, in this Pursuit article by Dave Coghill pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/suppo…

We have just launched the 5th edition of the major text book on cystic fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Cystic Fibrosis Aust Cystic Fibrosis Trust TSANZ American Thoracic Society (ATS) taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…

#Vaping can harm our bodies, environment & those around us. Check out our new vaping resources developed with Na Joomelah & National Best Practice Unit for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Choose vape free. Visit lungfoundation.com.au/Vapefree

Australia has officially banned engineered stone! 📢 This is an amazing step that will save countless lives. lungfoundation.com.au/news/australia…

The cutest event of the year was back for The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne's Good Friday Appeal. Our amazing student volunteers from UniMelb MDHS run the Teddy Bear Hospital each year to give kids a fun way to learn about health and wellbeing 🧸 🏥 🔗 Learn more → unimelb.me/3rRIoXX

Congratulations Melanie Neeland and @ShivanthanS and the rest of the team. This research is valuable and moves our understanding and our field on quite a bit.

Impacting respiratory conditions in children could have lifelong benefits, so great to publish this work that renders a treatable traits approach possible in young children with cough and wheeze.