Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant childhood brain tumor, and 5-year overall survival rates are as low as 40% depending on molecular subtype, with new therapies critically important. As radiotherapy and chemotherapy act through the induction of DNA damage, the sensitization of cancer cells through the inhibition of DNA damage repair pathways is a potential therapeutic strategy. ...

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• 2021
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Maternal diet during pregnancy has long been recognised as an important determinant of neonatal outcomes and child development. Infant body composition is a potentially modifiable risk factor for predicting future health and metabolic disease. ...

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Australia’s Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) is one of only a handful of national immunisation registers world-wide. ...

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• 2017
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Here we describe a method by which serial biopsy can be used to validate response to dacomitinib treatment in vivo using a mouse glioblastoma model ...

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• 2017
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Medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric malignant brain tumor, consists of at least four distinct molecular subgroups. ...

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Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) continues to occur at high rates among Australian Aboriginal people. ...

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• 2013
• December 2013

Middle ear infections are one of the main reasons that children visit a GP, are prescribed antibiotics and need surgery. Aboriginal children are particularly susceptible and commonly suffer from hearing loss which can affect speech and learning. ...

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Amy Keely Liz Leanne Elmie Bec Finlay-Jones Bebbington Davis Fried Janse Van Rensburg Sampson AFJ KB EA LF EJVR BS BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) MClinPsych/PhD MBBS FRACP PhD BSc DipEd MSpEd EdD BA, BSc BSc, BPsych ( ...

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We examined the association between otitis media and educational attainment in a retrospective population cohort of Western Australian children who participated in the Grade 3 National Assessment Program—Literacy and Numeracy in 2012. ...

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Documenting carer, service provider and healthcare practitioner perspectives on skin infections provides more understanding of the context of treatment decisions ...

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Hannah Tom Moore Snelling HC T OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Program Head, Infection and Vaccines Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research 08 6319 1427 08 6319 1817 Hannah.moore@telethonkids.org.au ...

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Hayley Liz Steve Christian Wenden Zubrick HC LW SR BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. BHlthSc MPH FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and Environments; National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow Research Assistant/Data ...

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