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  Celebrating our nurses 12 May 2022 In honour of International Nurses Day 2022, we have taken the opportunity to thank and celebrate our nurses at CAHS. A workforce of over 3,500 people, nurses span across neonatology, community health, mental health and Perth Children's Hospital in the Child and Adolescent Health Service. They perform a variety of roles include immunisation, school health, child health, clinical, education, research and more. This past year has been a challenging one in many ways, and we wanted to recognise the key role that nurses play in our health service. Every nurse in our health service received a small gift and messages of appreciation for their work.
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  Common eye condition in neonatal babies predicted by weight gain 19 April 2022 A joint neonatology and ophthalmology research project has found a simple method, based on a post-natal weight gain model, can predict a common eye condition in premature babies. The finding, which evaluated the performance of algorithms, provides strong evidence for reviewing the screening protocols for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) which is the leading cause of blindness in premature babies. ...
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  Research project shedding light on virus causing hearing loss in newborns 04 April 2022 When baby Charlotte’s cochlear implants were turned on for the first time, her mum said her face lit up with wonder. Charlotte has been part of a Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) hearing loss study on a virus linked to childhood hearing loss called cytomegalovirus (CMV). Lacy Swan says she believes her decision to allow her newborn baby to have a simple saliva swab for research into the virus, was ...
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  ‘Welcome to my world’ – researcher inspired by personal experience to improve support for parents of a child with cancer 16 March 2022 Ms Davies has recently published a paper in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology which found most parents of a child with cancer believe the COVID-19 pandemic provides greater understanding in the community of the everyday issues they face. The study was inspired through her own experience parenting a daughter who was diagnosed with a cancer eight years ago and her gratitude to Head of Oncology and...
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  New Rare Care Centre will coordinate rare disease care at Perth Children’s Hospital 28 February 2022 Western Australia is taking a global leading role in establishing a Rare Care Centre that will provide a holistic model of care for children with rare and undiagnosed diseases. Based at PCH, the Centre has secured funding from leading WA philanthropists – the Angela Wright Bennett Foundation, the McCusker Charitable Foundation via the Channel 7 Telethon Trust, the Stan Perron Charitable Foundatio...