This paper reports on trans and gender diverse young people's attitudes towards digital games and game-based digital mental health interventions ...

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• 2019
• November 2019

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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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

Increased allostatic load is linked with racial discrimination exposure, providing a mechanism for the biological embedding of racism as a psychosocial stressor. We undertook an examination of how racial discrimination interacts with socioecological, environmental, and health conditions to affect multisystem dysregulation in a First Nations population. ...

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• 2020
• December 2020

The association between scabies and skin sores is highly significant and indicates a causal relationship ...

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• 2018
• July 2018

Diarrhoeal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under 5 years globally, killing 525 000 annually. Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter Aboriginal) children suffer a high burden of disease. ...

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• 2018
• February 2018

increased adherence to penicillin prophylaxis is associated with reduced acute rheumatic fever recurrence and a likely reduction in mortality ...

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• 2018
• December 2018

Mothers of a child with intellectual disability (ID) have more psychiatric disorders after the birth of their child than other mothers. ...

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• 2015
• February 2015

The purpose of this study is to describe the social participation of young adults with Down syndrome and examine its relationship with the physical and... ...

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• 2014
• September 2014

We still do not have a RF vaccine, although the recent announcement that the Australian and New Zealand governments are jointly sponsoring a program to fast... ...

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• 2013
• September 2013

Young people who are overweight/obese are more likely to display expFL during submaximal exercise compared with children of healthy weight. ...

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• 2013
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Peter Shelley Jacoby Gorman PJ S BA (Hons) MSc BSc (Hons) PhD Biostatistician Honorary Research Associate Peter.Jacoby@telethonkids.org.au shelley.gorman@telethonkids.org.au Biostatistician Honorary Research Associate Peter Jacoby is a senior ...

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