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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• 2022
• August 2022

This study explores how the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic influenced family routines, relationships and technology use (smartphones and tablet computers) among families with infants. Infancy is known to be an important period for attachment security and future child development, and a time of being susceptible to changes within and outside of the family unit. ...

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• 2021
• December 2021

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
• April 2017

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

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• 2017
• April 2017

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

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• 2015
• February 2015

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

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• 2013
• December 2013

Bacterial colonisation of the airways is associated with increased risk of childhood asthma ...

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• 2010
• September 2010

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Neonatal sepsis is associated with significant mortality and morbidity. Low-middle-income countries are disproportionately affected, but late-onset sepsis still occurs in up to 20% of infants <28 weeks in high-income countries. Understanding site-specific data is vital to guide management.  ...

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• 2024
• June 2024

Working with bereaved parents in co-designed stillbirth research, policy and practice is essential to improving care and outcomes.  ...

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• 2023
• December 2023

Tom Snelling T BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research 08 6319 1817 tom.snelling@telethonkids.org.au Head, Infectious Disease Implementation Research Professor Tom Snelling is Head of the Infectious Disease ...

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• 2023
• October 2023

Limited research investigates early childhood education and care (ECEC) educators' involvement in promoting physical activity. The aim was to identify distinct profiles based on physical activity-related practices and psychosocial factors in ECEC educators and examine how they relate to the amount of time allocated to children's physical activity. A secondary analysis of educator-reported survey data from the Play Active study was undertaken. ...

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• 2024
• March 2024