Banksia Hill Project to be replicated Aotearoa (New Zealand) has embarked on its own version of the ground-breaking Banksia Hill study led by ...

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RSV was associated with substantial burden of childhood hospitalization specifically in children aged <3 months and in Indigenous children and pre-term children ...

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

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• 2018
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Researchers led by the team at the Children’s Diabetes Centre at Telethon Kids have taken a key step to a fully automated closed-loop insulin delivery system. ...

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• 2017
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Streptococcus pyogenes (also known as group A Streptococcus , Strep A) is an obligate human pathogen with significant global morbidity and mortality. Transmission is believed to occur primarily between individuals via respiratory droplets, but knowledge about other potential sources of transmission via aerosols or the environment is limited. Such knowledge is required to design optimal interventions to control transmission, particularly in endemic settings. ...

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• 2023
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Middle ear infections are one of the main reasons that children visit a GP, are prescribed antibiotics and need surgery. Aboriginal children are particularly susceptible and commonly suffer from hearing loss which can affect speech and learning. ...

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Melissa Gail Jenny Andrew Licari Alvares Downs Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew ML GA JA AJ PhD PhD BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD PhD Senior ...

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Benzathine penicillin G has been used as monthly deep intramuscular (IM) injections since the 1950s for secondary prevention of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Injection frequency and pain are major programmatic barriers for adherence, prompting calls for development of better long-acting penicillin preparations to prevent RHD. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

In the field of cancer research, lobbying efforts by the Telethon Kids Cancer Centre have contributed to major initiatives including Australia’s first personalised medicine program for children with high-risk cancer, and a mission to boost survival rates in brain cancer patients. ...

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Jonathan Rosemary Carapetis AM Wyber JR R AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS MBChB MPH FRACGP PhD Executive Director; Head, Strep A Translation; ...

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