Nearly 170 years ago a British doctor applied geospatial mapping to identify the source of a cholera outbreak in central London. Using a street map to plot the location of the homes of the sick, Dr John Snow was able to pinpoint a ‘ground zero’ for the outbreak – a contaminated water pump. ...

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• 2023
• December

Four outstanding researchers from the Wal-yan Centre - Professor André Schultz, Professor Stephen Stick, Rebecca Watkinson and Michael Beaven - have been presented with prestigious awards in acknowledgement of their research aimed at improving the lives of children with respiratory illness. ...

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• 2024
• March

The Pregnancy and Early Life Immunology team's overall research vision is targeted towards understanding immunological development during early life. ...

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• Early Environment
• Immunobiology & Immunotherapeutic Program

Children with cerebral palsy performed similar haptic exploratory procedures as their typical development peers ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

The ORIGINS Project is collecting data from multiple sources from the mother, infant and partner at multiple timepoints from gestation through to five years of age. ...

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Girls and young women with Rett syndrome are nearly four times more likely to suffer a fracture. ...

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• 2008
• March

To investigate the prevalence, trends, and characteristics of maltreatment and assault related hospital admissions and deaths among children ...

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• 2010
• November 2010

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between heavy maternal alcohol consumption and pre- peri- and postneonatally acquired cerebral palsy. ...

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• 2012
• March 2012

Pulmonary exacerbations are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). There is no consensus about which outcomes should be evaluated in studies of pulmonary exacerbations or how these outcomes should be measured. ...

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• 2022
• September 2022

This study investigated the capacity of three accelerometer-type devices to measure walking activity in Rett syndrome ...

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• 2014
• December 2014