Author Archives: caitlynrobertson

Melbourne researcher looks at how to support the world’s preschoolers

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Mobile crèches in India, nutrition lessons for parents in Colombia, and mental health support for families in the Congo are just a few of the projects a Melbourne researcher has studied, while looking at how to deliver early child development programs to the world’s preschoolers. Paediatrician Kate Milner from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is … Continued

Trial succeeds at drastically reducing two highly infectious skin diseases

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Australian, Solomon Islands and British researchers have succeeded in simultaneously treating two debilitating skin diseases – scabies and impetigo – which infect hundreds of millions of people, mostly in tropical countries. The study, published 5th of April by the The Lancet Infectious Diseases, took place in Choiseul Province of the Solomon Islands and involved offering … Continued