Fidgety movements occur in infants between the age of 9 to 20 weeks post-term, and their absence are a strong indicator that an infant has cerebral palsy. Prechtl's General Movement Assessment method evaluates whether an infant has fidgety movements, but requires a trained expert to conduct it. Timely evaluation facilitates early interventions, and thus computer-based methods have been developed to aid domain experts.  ...

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• 2023
• October 2023

Birth weight and childhood adiposity are associated with subsequent cardiovascular risk. We investigated the associations between metabolic clusters in young... ...

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• 2012
• June 2012

Emerging preclinical findings suggest that some sun exposure is necessary for optimal metabolic health ...

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• 2020
• January 2020

The search for novel microRNA (miRNA) biomarkers in plasma is hampered by haemolysis, the lysis and subsequent release of red blood cell contents, including miRNAs, into surrounding fluid. The biomarker potential of miRNAs comes in part from their multicompartment origin and the long-lived nature of miRNA transcripts in plasma, giving researchers a functional window for tissues that are otherwise difficult or disadvantageous to sample. ...

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• 2023
• February 2023

This review focuses primarily on the beneficial effects for human health of exposure to ultraviolet radiation ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

This community partnered pilot research, evaluated a school-based program to reduce the behavioral impact of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder ...

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• 2019
• March 2019

This review emphasises the need to gain evidence for the mechanisms linking early racism exposure to adverse health outcomes in later life ...

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• 2020
• April 2020

This study looked at the frequency of racism experiences over time in a population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children ...

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• 2018
• October 2018

In children, chronic wet cough may be a sign of underlying lung disease, including protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) and bronchiectasis. Chronic (> 4 weeks in duration) wet cough (without indicators pointing to alternative causes) that responds to antibiotic treatment is diagnostic of PBB. Timely recognition and management of PBB can prevent disease progression to irreversible bronchiectasis with lifelong consequences. However, detection and management require timely health-seeking by carers and effective management by clinicians. ...

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• 2022
• December 2022

At the end of a 60-day course of narrowband UVB phototherapy, administered to individuals with early multiple sclerosis, there were changes in the relative proportions of circulating B-cell subsets. This study investigated phototherapy-associated changes to cytokine responses of B cells when exposed to a TLR7 ligand. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL; Leishmania donovani) cases produce interferon-γ and tumor necrosis factor in response to soluble leishmanial antigen in whole-blood assays. Using transcriptional profiling, we demonstrate the impact of interleukin-10, a cytokine implicated in VL, on this response. ...

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• 2021
• February 2021

Including immediate implications for pregnancy complications, increasing evidence implicates maternal obesity having a major impact on long term child health. ...

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• 2017
• January 2017