The aim was to document the aetiology of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) hospitalisations in Western Australian children ...

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Playgroups are community-based programs for children and families aiming to improve child outcomes, enhance family and community networks and increase parenting capacity. Despite the prevalence of playgroups in Australian communities there is a lack of research clearly articulating the key components of playgroups, specifically from the perspective of parents attending these groups. ...

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• 2021
• April 2021

Every year 650,000 Australian children suffer from recurrent or chronic middle ear infections called otitis media (OM). ...

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• 2021
• March

Glioblastoma in adults, and medulloblastoma and pineoblastoma that mainly affect children, are aggressive brain tumors. ...

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• 2018
• March 2018

Leads Scientific Advisory Committee Professor Tobias Kollmann Chief Executive Officer  Head, Systems Vaccinology at Telethon Kids Institute and ...

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Research priority setting activities in paediatric chronic disease cover many discipline areas and have elicited a broad range of topics ...

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• 2018
• October 2018

Helen Alix Fiona Nicole Elmie Lisa Rigel Milroy Woolard Wood Wickens Janse Van Rensburg McGivern Paciente HM AW FW NW EJVR LM RP MBBS; FRANZCP; ...

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Impetigo is a contagious skin disease caused by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes. Without treatment, impetigo may be recurrent, develop into severe disease, or have serious, life-threatening sequelae. Standard treatment consists of topical or systemic antibiotic therapy (depending on severity), however, due to antibiotic resistance some therapies are increasingly ineffective. ...

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• 2022
• July 2022

Jennifer Peter Kent Richmond J PC RN MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP Clinical Research Manager Head, Vaccine Trials Group Jennifer.Kent@telethonkids.org.au ...

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Very preterm infants have a marked innate inflammatory response at the time of late-onset sepsis ...

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• 2020
• May 2020