Reports and Findings (Published Research)

Disease prevention in the age of convergence - The need for a wider, long ranging and collaborative vision

Our global health crisis and the pandemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is clearly rooted in complex modern societal and environmental changes, many of...

What is the optimal level of vitamin D?: Separating the evidence from the rhetoric

New evidence indicates that both high and low 25(OH)D levels may be associated with increased health risks.

Comparison of monochromatic aberrations in young adults with different visual acuity and refractive errors

Monochromatic aberrations were measured using a Zywave II wavefront aberrometer with natural pupils in a dark room.

Risk of newly detected infections and cervical abnormalities in women seropositive for naturally acquired human papillomavirus type 16/18 antibodies

We compared risk of newly detected infection and cervical abnormalities associated with HPV-16/18 between seronegative vs seropositive women (15-25 years) in...

Echocardiographic screening in a resource poor setting: Borderline rheumatic heart disease could be a normal variant

Cross-sectional observational study across ten primary schools in Fiji in school children aged 5-14 years.

Multinodular goiter in children: An important pointer to a germline DICER1 mutation

This paper is a clinical report of a boy presenting with a kidney cyst. Family history and genetic analysis revealed the family had a mutation in the DICER1...

Rhinovirus exacerbates house-dust-mite induced lung disease in adult mice

In this study, we combined human-rhinovirus infection with a clinically relevant mouse model of aero-allergen exposure using house-dust-mite in an attempt to...

Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease in high and low risk Australian children

We aimed to establish the prevalence of RHD in high-risk Indigenous Australian children using these criteria and to compare the findings with a group of...

Allergen ligands in the initiation of allergic sensitization topical collection on allergens

Many important allergens are not covalently bound to lipid or carbohydrate, but have structures belonging to lipid, glycan and glycolipid-binding families.

Antecedent hypoglycaemia does not diminish the glycaemia-increasing effect and glucoregulatory responses of a 10 s sprint in people with type 1 diabetes

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether antecedent hypoglycaemia impairs the glycaemia-raising effect of a 10 s sprint in individuals with type...