Children and adolescents spend more than one-third of their time sleeping. Yet, we know little about the causal impact of sleeping on their development. This paper is the first to exploit variation in local daily daylight duration measured on pre-determined diary dates across the same individuals through time as an instrument in an individual fixed effects regression model to draw causal estimates of sleep duration on a comprehensive set of child development indicators.  ...

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Our results provide a possible functional link between Toxoplasma gondii infection and congenital/early life and adult neurological clinical signs ...

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• 2018
• July 2018

Presence of bacterial otopathogen in the middle ear during ventilation tube insertion was a predictor of children at-risk of repeat ventilation tube insertion ...

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• 2020
• February 2020

These findings suggest the utility of specific FOT outcomes is dependent on the respiratory disease being assessed ...

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• 2019
• June 2019

Otitis media (OM) is a common disease in early childhood characterised by inflammation of the middle ear. ...

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We identified several novel candidate genes which warrant further analysis in cohorts matched more precisely for clinical phenotypes. ...

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• 2012
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The trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine is safe, immunogenic, provides clinical protection and should be administered annually to immunosuppressed children receiving treatment for cancer ...

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• 2016
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In the 1990s pneumonia hospitalisation rates in Western Australia (WA) were 13 times higher in Indigenous children than in non-Indigenous children... ...

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• 2012
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This study explores the differential impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep by children and their parents. We use nationally representative data with time use indicators objectively measured on multiple occasions for more than 1,100 child-parent pairs, coupled with daily meteorological data. ...

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Children with birth defects experience higher rates of hospitalisation for ALRIs before age 2 years than children with no birth defects. ...

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Omar Merridee Sébastien Laurence Rishi Sury Terrance Timo Raelene W. Joost Elaskalani Wouters Malinge Cheung Kotecha Johns Lassmann Endersby Lesterhuis OE MW SM LC RS T T R WJL BSc, MSc, PhD Bsc Hons (Physics), PhD PhD BPharm (Hons) MBA PhD MB ChB ( ...

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Deborah Lea-Ann Peter Peter Ruth Lehmann Kirkham Jacoby Richmond Thornton D LK PJ PC RT AO, MBBS, MSc PhD BA (Hons) MSc MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP PhD Honorary Emeritus Fellow Co-Head, Bacterial Respiratory Infectious Disease Group; Microbiology Lead, ...

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