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Fertility Week (12 to 18 October) focuses on the impact that age has on fertility in Australia and around the world. In the face of drastically falling fertility rates the world is facing the prospect of declining populations. In 2017 Australia’s fertility rate – the average number of children a woman gives birth to – […]

An international research team including the University of Adelaide has found further evidence that rare gene mutations can cause cerebral palsy, findings which could lead to earlier diagnosis and new treatments for this devastating movement disorder. In the study published in the journal Nature Genetics  researchers employed gene sequencing to examine the DNA of 250 cerebral palsy families, […]

More than $3 million has been awarded to the University of Adelaide’s Robinson Research Institute to identify the predisposing conditions and potentially modifiable factors that can substantially reduce the risk of congenital heart defects. The funding is from the Federal Government’s Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) Cardiovascular Health Mission  to boost research into heart disease and stroke. […]

There are fears parents will skip vital vaccinations for their children and that there may be disease outbreaks,because parents are concerned about taking their children to their GP during the COVID-19 pandemic. This follows new findings from the University of Adelaide that only one third of parents are aware of the recommendation that children should be […]