Gastrostomy placement was associated with improvement in BMI in females with Rett syndrome, but its long-term impact on individuals and their families is unclear ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• September 2018

Many children with intellectual disability live with medical comorbidities. This study examined the impacts of comorbidities on quality of life (QOL) of children with intellectual disabilities and whether impacts varied with caregiver perceptions that medical needs had been met. ...

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• 2021
• April 2021

Parent observations provide an initial framework for understanding quality of life in autism spectrum disorder ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• January 2019

When the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, Governments responded with lockdown and isolation measures to combat viral spread, including the closure of many schools. More than a year later, widespread screening for SARS-CoV-2 is critical to allow schools and other institutions to remain open. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• January 2022

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

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• March 2018

Christopher Peter Peter Tom Blyth Jacoby Richmond Snelling CC PJ PC T MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD BA (Hons) MSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases; Co-Head, ...

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We examined general fertility rates from 1995 and 2006 by socioeconomic group, maternal age, Aboriginality and location in WA before and after the Baby Bonus. ...

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• 2012
• April 2012

Pertussis hospitalisation is more common among infants born prematurely, who have significant comorbidities, or are Indigenous, but acellular pertussis (aP) vaccine effectiveness (VE) estimates in these sub-groups are lacking. We measured aP VE by Indigenous status, and policy-relevant categories of prematurity and comorbidity, in a population-based Australian cohort. ...

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• 2022
• January 2022

A healthy diet was consistently associated with higher academic performance ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2016
• July 2016

Apgar score, birth weight, sex, socioeconomic status, and maternal ethnicity, in addition to gestational age, have pronounced impacts on disability-free survival. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• December 2019

Gina Hayley Heather Trapp Christian Croll GT HC HC BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. BHSc ARC DECRA Fellow & Head of Food and Nutrition Research Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and Environments; National Heart Foundation ...

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Vitamin D has been linked in some studies with atopy- and asthma-associated phenotypes in children with established disease,but its role in disease inception... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• May 2011