This study highlights the importance of human milk in providing anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 immunity to newborns. The highest protective activity of human milk against COVID-19 was found in colostrum from infected mothers. ...

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• 2024
• June 2024

Indigenous children and young peoples live with an inequitable burden of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. In this Review, we focus on the epidemiological burden and lived experience of these conditions for Indigenous young peoples in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. We outline the direct and indirect drivers of rheumatic heart disease risk and their mitigation. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Breastfeeding is important for infants, and fathers are influential in supporting their partner in their decision to breastfeed and how long they breastfeed for. Fathers can feel excluded from traditional antenatal education and support opportunities but highly value social support from peers. Online health forums can be a useful source of social support, yet little is known about how fathers would use a conversation forum embedded in a breastfeeding-focused app. Milk Man is a mobile app that aimed to increase paternal support for breastfeeding using a range of strategies, including a conversation forum. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Christopher Blyth CC MBBS (Hons) DCH FRACP FRCPA PhD Director, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases; Co-Head, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Honorary and NHMRC Emerging ...

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• 2021
• April 2021

Overall, infant immunisation coverage is currently >90% in Australia, but there are pockets of under-immunised children including children from migrant backgrounds. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2021
• February 2021

There were no statistically significant associations between time spent outdoors and adiposity ...

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• 2019
• November 2019

There is a critical need for the field to develop and implement strategies to understand the mechanisms underlying all rare diseases and translate these to clinical care ...

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• 2019
• March 2019

We introduce C1 CAGE, a method for the detection of transcript 5'-ends with an original sample multiplexing strategy in the C1TM microfluidic system ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

Liz Tim Davis Jones EA TW MBBS FRACP PhD MBBS DCH FRACP MD Head, Chronic & Severe Diseases Research Focus Area; Clinical Lead, Diabetes and Obesity Research Co-head, Diabetes and Obesity Research Head, Chronic & Severe Diseases Research Focus Area; ...

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We report vaccine efficacy against CIN3+ and adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) in the end-of-study analysis of PApilloma TRIal against Cancer In young Adults. ...

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• 2012
• January 2012

Sex-related differences in bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) have been reported in adolescents, but the mechanisms remain obscure. ...

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• 2011
• August 2011

The aims of this study were to compare the early and subsequent clinical courses of female subjects with Rett syndrome categorised by whether... ...

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• 2008
• June 2008