Adverse pregnancy outcomes including maternal mortality, stillbirth, preterm birth, intrauterine growth restriction cause millions of deaths each year. More effective interventions are urgently needed. Maternal immunization could be one such intervention protecting the mother and newborn from infection through its pathogen-specific effects. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• July 2023

Emerging evidence indicates that the built environment influences early child development. Access to, and the quality of, built environment features vary with the socioeconomic status (SES) of neighbourhoods. It has not yet been established whether the association between built environment features and early child development varies by neighbourhood SES. ...

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• 2022
• June 2022

While Australia has established leadership roles in climate science and health research, it must now link these two strengths ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2017
• February 2017

This commentary describes the likely impacts on children's health and wellbeing from climate change, based on the solid science of environmental child health. ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

The aim of this paper is to review relevant research papers to aid practitioners involved in obstetric malpractice litigation. ...

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• 2011
• February 2011

This study describes social and racial inequalities in poor fetal growth in Western Australia between 1984 and 2006. ...

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• 2011
• February 2011

The Australian baby bonus maternity payment introduced in 2004 has been reported to have successfully increased fertility rates in Australia. We aimed to... ...

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• 2012
• November 2012

Although record linkage of routinely collected health datasets is a valuable research resource, most datasets are established for administrative purposes and... ...

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• 2013
• March 2013

We investigated whether the risk of adverse infant outcomes after assisted deliveries was different for mothers admitted as public or private patients for... ...

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• 2013
• April 2013

Detection of pneumonia-causing respiratory viruses in the nasopharynx of asymptomatic children has made their actual contribution to pneumonia unclear. We compared nasopharyngeal viral density between children with and without pneumonia to understand if viral density could be used to diagnose pneumonia. ...

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• 2020
• July 2020

Heatwaves have serious health impacts and we need a better approach to prevention and management ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• September 2017

The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) consists of EGFR, ErbB2, ErbB3, and ErbB4. These receptors play key roles in cell proliferation, angiogenesis, cell migration, and in some cases, tumor promotion. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• August 2022