New children’s mental health and wellbeing roadmap The new national strategy takes on board the RACGP’s recommendations that GPs are central to the ongoing process.
Will GPs be vaccinating five-year-olds against COVID by year’s end? Preliminary results among children under 12 show promise, but larger trials will likely be needed to confirm that the benefits outweigh the risks.
Children’s risk of long COVID ‘substantially lower’ than expected For the majority of young people, COVID-19 is a mild disease – what does that mean for the possibility of vaccinating under-12s?
Delta’s impact on Australian children becomes clearer COVID is spreading more easily in schools and childcare, but most children infected during Sydney’s outbreak have had mild or no symptoms.
Children on NDIS given access to COVID vaccination Australians on the National Disability Insurance Scheme aged 12–15 years will be eligible to receive a Pfizer vaccine from 25 August.
Addressing the ‘information tsunami’ around vaccination for teens With so much information circulating, how can GPs best support parents with COVID-19 vaccine counselling for their children?
WHO adviser left ‘heartbroken’ by Doherty Institute COVID modelling Experts say it fails to account for children, creating a potential ‘sweet spot’ for a new COVID variant of concern to emerge.
One in four COVID cases in NSW outbreak has been a child under 19 It is clear that Delta is affecting children more than the original coronavirus strain – so how do we protect them?
Evidence suggests COVID vaccines are protective against Delta strain Of 12,383 people admitted to UK hospitals with the recently identified variant of concern, only three had been fully vaccinated with two doses.
Youth detention policy labelled ‘stupid, lazy, outrageous and immoral’ More than 70 organisations, including the RACGP, have called on all governments to raise the age of criminal responsibility.