Pregnancy and early infancy are increased risk periods for severe adverse effects of respiratory infections. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (respectfully referred to as First Nations) women and children in Australia bear a disproportionately higher burden of respiratory diseases compared to non-Indigenous women and infants. Influenza vaccines and whooping cough (pertussis) vaccines are recommended and free in every Australian pregnancy to combat these infections. ...

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• 2023
• May 2023

We compared the ability of Ars, to standard oscillatory outcomes, to determine respiratory disease and differentiate responses to inhaled bronchial challenges. ...

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• 2012
• January 2012

This study suggests that germ-line DICER1 mutations make a clinically significant contribution to PinB, establishing DICER1 as an important susceptibility... ...

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• 2014
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Improved public health measures targeting bacterial skin infections are needed to reduce this high burden of skin infections in Western Australia ...

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• 2018
• September 2018

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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Helen Jenny Leonard Downs HM JA MBChB MPH BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD Principal Research Fellow Program Head, Development and Disability +61 419 956 946 08 6319 1763 helen.leonard@telethonkids.org.au Jenny.Downs@telethonkids.org.au Principal Research ...

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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
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We identified consistent hypomethylation of the CTGF locus in primary pre-B ALL specimens regardless of CTGF expression. ...

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• 2013
• August 2013

Bullying varies in frequency, intensity, duration and hence severity, and contributes uniquely and directly to mental health problems, with severe and long-lasting consequences. Almost a half of school-age students report being bullied in the past year. ...

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• 2021
• December 2021

Scabies is one of the world’s most prevalent diseases, with approximately 147 million cases at any one time and an estimated annual incidence of 455 million new episodes. Although Group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis has long been implicated in the pathogenesis of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and subsequent rheumatic heart disease (RHD), impetigo caused by GAS has recently been postulated as a link between scabies and the pathogenesis of ARF. ...

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• 2023
• October 2023

Few children and adolescents receiving BPG as secondary prophylaxis will achieve concentrations >0.02 mg/L for the majority of the time between injections ...

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• 2019
• July 2019

Vaccine-proximate febrile seizures accounted for a small proportion of all febrile seizures hospital presentations ...

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• 2019
• May 2019