Steve Sarah Zubrick Johnson SR SJ FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD BA, PostGradDip; PhD Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow Senior Research Fellow 08 6319 ...

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Preterm babies have a heightened risk of infection as their immune system is not mature. The Neonatal Health Team is exploring new ways to diagnose, prevent and treat infections in WA's smallest patients . ...

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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare, inherited, life-limiting condition predominantly affecting the lungs, for which there is no cure. The disease is characterized by recurrent pulmonary exacerbations (PEx), which are thought to drive progressive lung damage. Management of these episodes is complex and generally involves multiple interventions targeting different aspects of disease. The emergence of innovative trials and use of Bayesian statistical methods has created renewed opportunities for studying heterogeneous populations in rare diseases. ...

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• 2023
• March 2023

This study assessed an alternative approach, using a small scale halide assay that can be adapted for a personalized high throughput setting to analyze CFTR function of pAEC. ...

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• 2018
• January 2018

Chronic airway injury and dysregulated repair programs are evident in airway epithelium obtained from patients with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome ...

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• 2020
• June 2020

The airway epithelium of both children and adults with asthma is relatively undifferentiated characterized by a significantly increased proportion of... ...

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• 2015
• August 2015

This study found rhinovirus infection drives necrotic cell death in cystic fibrosis airway epithelial cells ...

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• 2020
• April 2020

A new study has found that more than half of West Australian women surveyed drank alcohol during pregnancy. ...

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• 2007
• January

The epidemic increase in the prevalence of allergic disease, which first started in the industrialized countries in the 1960s, may have reached a peak in the... ...

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• 2014
• August 2014

The P4 Respiratory Health for Kids Team is a multi-disciplinary group with skills in clinical medicine, physiology, psychology, and in cellular and molecular biology, that are committed to improving the lives of children with respiratory diseases and their families. ...

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