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        Pneumococcal vaccine sees hospital admissions for deadly pneumonia slashed

        What's next Researchers from the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases will now shift their focus to tackling the many barriers that ...

        The day time stood still for little Manna

        Manna and Mark Manna with her brother Sage, dad Mark and mum Patricia Patricia Ilchuk can still recall the day in August 2020 when her daughter Manna ...

        Phage therapy a CF ‘game changer’

        Parents of children with cystic fibrosis live in constant fear their children may contract life-threatening, difficult-to-treat lung infections – but ...

        Teaching educators to see neurodisability through kids’ eyes

        In 2018 findings from the ground-breaking Banksia Hill Project revealed that 89 per cent of young people in detention who were assessed as part of ...

        Researchers may have found key to preventing asthma

        Researchers at the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre have made a world-first discovery into how to prevent severe respiratory infections in babies ...

        Saying yes to newborn trial a life-changing piece of luck

        Charlotte Allan  When Perth mum Lacy Swan’s daughter Charlotte failed the newborn hearing test at 3 days of age, the medical team explained it could ...

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        "Hurts less, lasts longer"; a qualitative study on experiences of young people receiving high-dose subcutaneous injections of benzathine penicillin G to prevent rheumatic heart disease in New Zealand

        Four-weekly intramuscular benzathine penicillin G injections to prevent acute rheumatic fever progression have remained unchanged since 1955. A Phase-I trial in healthy volunteers demonstrated the safety and tolerability of high-dose subcutaneous infusions of BPG which resulted in a much longer effective penicillin exposure, and fewer injections. Here we describe the experiences of young people living with ARF participating in a Phase-II trial of SubCutaneous Injections of BPG. ...

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        The effects of sleep duration on child health and development

        Children and adolescents spend more than one-third of their time sleeping. Yet, we know little about the causal impact of sleeping on their development. This paper is the first to exploit variation in local daily daylight duration measured on pre-determined diary dates across the same individuals through time as an instrument in an individual fixed effects regression model to draw causal estimates of sleep duration on a comprehensive set of child development indicators.  ...

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        Invasive fungal disease in children with solid tumors: An Australian multicenter 10-year review

        Invasive fungal disease (IFD) occurs less frequently during treatment for solid compared to hematological malignancies in children, and risk groups are poorly defined. Retrospective national multicenter cohort data (2004-2013) were analyzed to document prevalence, clinical characteristics, and microbiology of IFD. ...

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        Erdosteine in children and adults with bronchiectasis (BETTER trial): study protocol for a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial

        Bronchiectasis is a worldwide chronic lung disorder where exacerbations are common. It affects people of all ages, but especially Indigenous populations in high-income nations. Despite being a major contributor to chronic lung disease, there are no licensed therapies for bronchiectasis and there remain relatively few randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted in children and adults. ...

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