In Australian remote communities, First Nations children with otitis media (OM)-related hearing loss are disproportionately at risk of developmental delay and poor school performance, compared to those with normal hearing. Our objective was to compare OM-related hearing loss in children randomised to one of 2 pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) formulations. ...

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Infant vaccination with 3 doses of PCV10 or PCV13 is safe and immunogenic in a highly endemic setting ...

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A recent systematic review of 5 randomized clinical trials, found that early egg introduction was associated with reduced egg allergy. ...

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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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Melissa Fiona Helen O'Donnell Stanley Leonard M FJ HM BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv HonFRACGP HonMD HonFRCPCH HonLLB (honoris causa) MBChB MPH Honorary Research Associate Patron ...

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This paper aimed to describe the relationships between level of impairment and participation in community activities for girls and women with Rett syndrome. ...

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Susan Pat Deborah Prescott Holt Strickland SL PG DH MBBS BMedSci PhD FRACP PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA PhD Honorary Research Fellow Emeritus Honorary Researcher Program Head, Immunobiology and Immunotherapeutic Program susan.prescott@ ...

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To examine rates and predictors of 7-day readmission in infants hospitalised before 3 months of age with infectious and non-infectious conditions. A retrospective population-based data-linkage study of 121 854 infants from a 5-year metropolitan birth cohort (2008-2012). Cox proportional hazard models were used to examine associations between infant and maternal factors with 7-day readmission. ...

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It is well recognized that genetic disease makes a significant contribution to childhood illness. Here, we present recent population data describing... ...

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We investigated whether childhood infection-related hospitalisation (IRH, a marker of severity) was associated with subsequent adult CVD hospitalisation. ...

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IL8RA and IL8RB, encoded by CXCR1 and CXCR2, are receptors for interleukin (IL)-8 and other CXC chemokines involved in chemotaxis and activation of... ...

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Gina Matt Francis Trapp Cooper Mitrou GT MC FG BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD BCA Marketing, BSc Statistics and Applied Statistics, PhD BEc ARC DECRA Fellow & Head of Food and Nutrition Research Manager, Biometrics Program Head, Population Health, and ...

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