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    • Dr Valerie Sung

    Senior Researcher, Prevention Innovation Group, Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Paediatrician, Royal Children's Hospital; Honorary Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne

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    Health & Medicine

    Hearing loss still a challenge for kids

    Children born with hearing loss are now routinely diagnosed within weeks of birth – having hearing aids and cochlear implants fitted well before school. So why are they still lagging behind their hearing peers in language?

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    Health & Medicine

    The probiotic hope for colic

    New international research finds that the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri can help treat breastfed babies less than 3 months old who have colic (and their struggling parents)

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