The underlying pathogenesis of pediatric obstructive sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and recurrent tonsillitis (RT) are poorly understood but need to be elucidated to develop less invasive treatment and prevention strategies. ...

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• 2022
• February 2022

Indigenous children in colonised nations experience high rates of health disparities linked to historical trauma resulting from displacement and dispossession, as well as ongoing systemic racism. Skin infections and their complications are one such health inequity, with the highest global burden described in remote-living Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (hereafter respectfully referred to as Aboriginal) children. Yet despite increasing urbanisation, little is known about the skin infection burden for urban-living Aboriginal children. ...

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• 2024
• January 2024

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in children, causes them considerable discomfort, as well as distress to parents and has a tendency to recur. ...

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• 2013
• January 2013

Adolescents and young adults with Type 1 Diabetes are invited to be co-researchers at a summit to help develop the Children’s Diabetes Centre’s new exercise gui ...

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Deborah Jean-Francois Lea-Ann Peter Ruth Strickland Lauzon-Joset Kirkham Richmond Thornton DH JFLJ LK PC RT PhD PhD MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP PhD Program ...

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This review provides up-to-date evidence for teleaudiology hearing aid services in new and experienced hearing aid users in different practice settings ...

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• 2018
• July 2018

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and type 1 diabetes in the offspring, using complete... ...

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• 2013
• December 2013

Previous studies showed that unfavourable weather conditions discourage physical activity. However, it remains unclear whether unfavourable weather conditions have a differential impact on physical activity in children compared with adults. ...

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• 2023
• April 2023

To identify and review key research advances from the literature published between 2019 and 2023 on the diagnosis and microbiology of otitis media (OM) including acute otitis media (AOM), recurrent AOM (rAOM), otitis media with effusion (OME), chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) and AOM complications (mastoiditis).  ...

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• 2023
• September 2023

Following a relative absence in winter 2020, a large resurgence of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) detections occurred during the 2020/2021 summer in Western Australia. This seasonal shift was linked to SARS-CoV-2 public health measures. We examine the epidemiology and RSV testing of respiratory-coded admissions, and compare clinical phenotype of RSV-positive admissions between 2019 and 2020. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022