The aim of this research note is to encourage child language researchers and clinicians to give careful consideration to the use of domain-specific tests as a proxy for language; particularly in the context of large-scale studies and for the identification of language disorder in clinical practice. ...

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• 2023
• February 2023

While most Australian children are vaccinated, delays in vaccination can put them at risk from preventable infections. Widespread mobile phone ownership in Australia could allow automated short message service (SMS) reminders to be used as a low-cost strategy to effectively 'nudge' parents towards vaccinating their children on time. ...

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• 2023
• February 2023

Meta-analyses and single-site studies have established that children are less infectious than adults within a household when positive for ancestral SARS-CoV-2. In addition, children appear less susceptible to infection when exposed to ancestral SARS-CoV-2 within a household. The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC) has been associated with an increased number of paediatric infections worldwide. ...

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• May 2023

The current study sought to determine whether gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia are associated with neurocognitive outcomes in middle childhood. ...

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• 2012
• March 2012

These data highlight the importance of recognising Sporotrichosis in children outside an outbreak setting ...

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• 2020
• March 2020

We discovered a previously unknown major resistance mechanism in glioma in that most EGFR domain III-targeting antibodies do not neutralize EGFRvIII ...

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• 2019
• April 2019

A summary of the literature regarding the use of adjunctive protein synthesis inhibitors for toxin suppression in the setting of S. aureus infections is presented ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

Admissions for ARI were higher in Western Australia and displayed greater socioeconomic disparities than England and Scotland, where ARI rates are increasing ...

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• 2019
• May 2019

Lung clearance index may be a useful surveillance tool to monitor structural lung disease in preschool and school-age children with cystic fibrosis ...

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• 2016
• January 2016

Rebecca Hayley Hannah Christopher Pavlos Christian Moore Blyth RP HC HC CC PhD, MSFS, BSc (1st Class Hons), PhD W.Aust. OAM BSc (Hons) GradDipClinEpi PhD MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD Senior Program Manager Program Head, Healthy Behaviours and ...

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Asha Christopher Tom Bowen Blyth Snelling AC CC T BA MBBS DCH FRACP PhD GAICD MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Team Lead, Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases ...

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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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