This paper analyzes the effects of “shocks” to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the Great Recession, on children’s mental well-being ...

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• 2019
• February 2019

Chris Brennan-Jones C PhD Head, Ear Health chris.brennan-jones@telethonkids.org.au Senior Research Fellow, Ear Health Associate Professor Chris Brennan-Jones is an audiologist and clinician scientist who leads the Ear Health team at Telethon Kids ...

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Chronic tinnitus during childhood/adolescence can be associated with impaired quality of life. Guidelines for managing paediatric tinnitus recommend assessment and interventions are often based upon the experiences and opinions of guideline committee members. ...

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• 2023
• January 2023

Lung function measures in a health, unsedated 1- and 2-year-old children in a South African birth cohort study ...

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• 2016
• November 2016

Population-level, nationally representative data on the prevalence of minority stressors and traumatic events, mental ill-health effects, and the preventative utility of school climate, among gender and sexuality diverse young people in Australia, is significantly lacking. ...

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• 2023
• November 2023

The practice of using race or ethnicity in medicine to explain differences between individuals is being called into question because it may contribute to biased medical care and research that perpetuates health disparities and structural racism. ...

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• 2022
• January 2022

We report the impact on Strongyloides seroprevalence after two oral ivermectin mass drug administrations (MDAs) delivered 12 months apart in a remote Australian Aboriginal community. ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

Children with otitis media (OM) experience long waiting times to access Australia's public hospitals due to limited capacity. The aim of this article is to utilize an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) telehealth service (the Ear Portal) to examine whether delayed access to specialist care is associated with poorer behavioral outcomes for children with OM. ...

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• 2023
• December 2023

Our data provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underpinning the association of HLA-DRB1 alleles with risk versus protection in visceral leishmaniasis in humans ...

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• 2018
• April 2018

Uniformly low expression of IFN and IFNGR1 in PKDL skin biopsies could explain parasite persistence ...

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• 2014
• December 2014

Here we examined single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in these genes as risk factors for cutaneous (CL) and mucosal leishmaniasis (ML), and leishmaniasis... ...

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• 2015
• March 2015

Here we show that transfected macrophages stably expressing wild-type Nramp1 (Nramp1+) control the net replication of B. thailandensis, but not B. pseudomallei. ...

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• 2017
• August 2017