Otitis media (OM), middle ear infection, represents a significant burden on children, their families, and the healthcare system. OM is the major cause of hearing loss in children and if left untreated in children who suffer chronic and recurrent forms of OM, this disease can have serious life-long sequelae. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2023
• May 2023

This role will be based in the Telethon Kids Pilbara office in South Hedland and will require extensive and regular travel to 3 research sites that ...

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Last month, our Centre's co-Director Liz Davis, attended the National Association of Diabetes Centre's (NADC) Symposium in Sydney. ...

• Rio Tinto Children's Diabetes Centre
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• December 2016

Research has shown that no matter where our patients reside in WA, whether it be remote or metropolitan based, the ongoing management of diabetes is the same. ...

• Rio Tinto Children's Diabetes Centre
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• August 2016

Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is the most common bacterial otopathogen associated with otitis media (OM). NTHi persists in biofilms within the middle ears of children with chronic and recurrent OM. Australian Aboriginal children suffer exceptionally high rates of chronic and recurrent OM compared to non-Aboriginal children. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• April 2022

The Opportunity: Vaccine Trials Group are looking for a Research Nurse to work in our vibrant team. The Research Nurse will work alongside the ...

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Our collective ambition Contact us Discover. Prevent. Cure. Representing a 30-year interdisciplinary collaboration between Telethon Kids, Perth ...

• Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre

Increased allostatic load is linked with racial discrimination exposure, providing a mechanism for the biological embedding of racism as a psychosocial stressor. We undertook an examination of how racial discrimination interacts with socioecological, environmental, and health conditions to affect multisystem dysregulation in a First Nations population. ...

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• 2020
• December 2020

The mission of the Vaccine Trials Group is to improve the health of the community through immunisation and the prevention of infectious diseases. ...

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Delays within the motor domain are often overlooked as an early surveillance marker for autism. The present study evaluated motor difficulties and its potential as an early predictive marker for later autism likelihood in a cohort of infants showing early behavioral signs of autism aged 9-14 months. The motor domain was evaluated using the motor subscales of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning at baseline, and at a 6-month follow-up. ...

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• 2021
• May 2021