A free information kit giving new and expectant parents the power to provide a safer home environment was launched at The Royal Children’s Hospital today by the Child Safety Commissioner. The RCH Safety Centre’s Bringing Baby Home info kit contains comprehensive safety tips on nursery furniture and safe sleeping, kitchen safety, choking and suffocation, fire … Continued

9 August 2009.

A paediatrician at The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) has urged parents to get themselves and their children immunised against whooping cough. Dr Jenny Royle, who runs the RCH Immunisation Centre, says there’s a whooping cough epidemic in Australia, with babies most at risk. “Whooping cough is a horrible disease.  My worry is that for every … Continued

6 August 2009.