What is a hypo? A condition that occurs when a person’s blood glucose levels falls to less than 4mmol/L. What causes it? Too much insulin, delaying ...

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• 2021
• In the pipeline

For decades, chemotherapy and radiotherapy have been the mainstays of treatment for cancer, but the side-effects from high doses can be life-long and ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
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Convenient, readily available and helping create a close and loving bond between baby and mother, breastfeeding is highly regarded for optimising infant health and preventing chronic disease in adulthood. ...

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The burden and consequences of skin infections for remote living indigenous people are high ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• June 2020

Inclusion of early child development in the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda raises issues of how this goal should be monitored, particularly in low resource settings. The aim of this paper was to explore the validity of the early Human Capability Index (eHCI); a population measure designed to capture the holistic development of children aged 3-5 years. Convergent, divergent, discriminant and concurrent validity were examined by exploring the associations between eHCI domains and child (sex, age, stunting status, preschool attendance) and family (maternal education, home learning environment) characteristics. Analyses were repeated using data from seven low and middle income countries. ...

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• 2020
• June 2020

Safe, highly curative, short course, direct acting antiviral (DAA) therapies are now available to treat chronic hepatitis C. DAA therapy is freely available to all adults chronically infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Australia. If left untreated, hepatitis C may lead to progressive hepatic fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

To compare the developmental and behavioral outcomes of children experiencing an initial vaccine-proximate (VP) febrile seizure (FS) to those having a non-VP-FS (NVP-FS) and controls who have not had a seizure. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• July 2020

Vigilant Attention (VA), defined as the ability to maintain attention to cognitively unchallenging activities over a prolonged period of time, is critical to support higher cognitive functions and many behaviours in our everyday life. Evidence has shown that VA rapidly improves throughout childhood and adolescence until young adulthood and tends to decline in older adulthood. ...

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• 2020
• August 2020

Our local data supports continuing intramuscular injection of BPG in patients with rheumatic heart disease receiving anticoagulant medication ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• July 2020

Human microbiota plays a fundamental role in modulating the immune response. Western environment and lifestyle are envisaged to alter the human microbiota with a new microbiome profile established in Chinese immigrants, which fails to prime the immune system. Here, we investigated how differences in composition of oropharyngeal microbiome may contribute to patterns of interaction between the microbiome and immune system in Chinese immigrants living in Australia. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• July 2020