Laboratory models provide an important tool in helping to understand the cellular and molecular drivers of respiratory disease. Many animal models exist that model the neonatal outcomes of preterm birth. ...

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• 2022
• November 2022

New research links poor language to lack of Vitamin D in womb. ...

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• 2012
• February 2012

The goal of the current study was to investigate asthma and mental health among youth in the community. ...

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• 2012
• January 2012

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the small and large conducting airway mucosa characterised by Th2 cell immunity. ...

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• 2010
• April 2010

Andrew Chris Gail Susan Peter Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Brennan-Jones Alvares Prescott Jacoby AJ C GA SL PJ PhD PhD PhD MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP BA (Hons) MSc Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism Research at Telethon Kids and ...

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This study explored mental health profiles in Australian school students using indicators of well-being (i.e., optimism, life satisfaction, and happiness) and psychological distress (i.e., sadness and worries). The sample included 75,757 students (ages 8-18 years) who completed the 2019 South Australian Wellbeing and Engagement Collection. ...

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• 2024
• April 2024

Family-based lifestyle interventions for children/adolescents with severe levels of obesity are numerous, but evidence indicates programs fail to elicit short- or longer-term weight loss outcomes. Families with lived experience can provide valuable insight as we strive to improve outcomes from programs. Our aim was to explore elements that families desired in a program designed to treat severe levels of obesity in young people. ...

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• 2023
• October 2023

HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria are the three most important infectious diseases in Ethiopia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the spatial codistribution of these diseases is critical for designing geographically targeted and integrated disease control programmes. This study investigated the spatial overlap and drivers of HIV, TB and malaria prevalence in Ethiopia. ...

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• 2022
• February 2022

Glenn Jonathan Michael Pat Tim Tobias Pearson Carapetis AM Serralha Holt Barnett Kollmann G JR MS PG TB TK BA (Education) PhD Candidate AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA PhD PhD, M.D., SFUW Director of First Nations ...

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School bullying is a public health concern affecting the physical and mental health of children and young people. While school-based interventions to prevent bullying have been developed internationally, the effectiveness of many interventions has been mixed and modest. ...

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• 2022
• October 2022

Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are one of the most widespread and impactful malaria interventions in Africa, yet a spatially-resolved time series of ITN coverage has never been published. Using data from multiple sources, we generate high-resolution maps of ITN access, use, and nets-per-capita annually from 2000 to 2020 across the 40 highest-burden African countries. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Amy Jenny Andrew Helen Deborah Martyn Melissa Phil Kandice Gail Vincent Finlay-Jones Downs Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Leonard Strickland Symons Licari Stumbles Varcin Alvares Mancini AFJ JA AJ HM DH MS ML PS KJ GA VOM BPsych(Hons), MPsych ...

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