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Mel Armstrong’s daughter, Lucy, pictured here with her father, Adam, lives with a serious condition of the large intestine.

Lucy has a serious condition. A clinic that helps her and other children has quietly closed

Parents of sick kids as well as staff at the Royal Children’s Hospital fear a specialist unit that treats complex colorectal conditions has been quietly disbanded.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook

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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.

Coalition senators swing behind Pauline Hanson’s push for her own trans inquiry

Eighteen Coalition senators sided with Pauline Hanson, despite Peter Dutton telling them to avoid culture wars and support the government’s existing review.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Lucy Letby will never be released from prison after receiving the most severe punishment in the British legal system.

‘Did not find any murders’: Top doctors question conviction of UK ‘killer nurse’

Lucy Letby was sentenced to life in prison for the murder or attempted murder of 14 babies. An international panel of specialists has now raised doubts about the evidence used to convict her.

  • Megan Specia
The treatment of children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria is back in the news following the closure of a prominent gender clinic in the UK.

Puberty blockers and treatments for trans youth under review

The federal government has ordered the review to come up with new guidelines for the treatment of trans and gender diverse children.

  • Michael Bachelard and Mike Foley
Mother and child doing well: Bethany Williams with her daughter.

Instagram almost shamed me into refusing pain relief in childbirth

Social media algorithms told me that I had to give birth at home, without drugs. But my baby didn’t care about the influencers’ rules around childbirth.

  • Bethany Williams
Illustration: Joe Benke

Too young for TikTok, old enough for jail: How a meaner Australia treats its kids

Two worrying but contradictory laws affecting children passed last week in Queensland and Canberra. Both arose despite a lack of evidence to support them.

  • Sean Kelly
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Two Floreat parents were found guilty of starving their daughter and treating her like a small child.

Behind the scenes of the starvation trial that gripped Perth

A Floreat couple who allegedly lived in squalor inside their multimillion-dollar mansion were found guilty of mistreating their severely underweight daughter.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
It’s only natural: there’s good reason kids prefer white, beige foods.

I vowed my kids wouldn’t eat white bread. I lasted two weeks

Children are increasingly dictating the food environment, and it’s making them unhealthy. But which nutritional hills should parents die on?

  • Sarah Berry
Johanna Barry with daughter Makenzie, who suffered night terrors and hallucinations which her parents attributed to the asthma drug she was taking at the time.

This asthma drug is taken by millions. Now scientists have found it in the brain

The findings, presented at a conference in Texas last week, have raised pressure on Australian authorities to better warn patients about the risks of montelukast.

  • Angus Thomson
Floreat parents starvation trial

Floreat parents found guilty of starving daughter

Two Floreat parents have spent their first night behind bars after being found guilty of starving their teenage daughter, as well as social, emotional and functional neglect.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/paediatrics-jr5