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Children follow in their parent’s behaviour footstepsNew research shows that parents have an important role to play in teaching their children to understand another person's feelings and point of view.
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Traffic emission linked to low birthweightNew research from Perth's The Kids for Child Health Research has linked traffic emissions to reduced fetal growth.
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Reading books boosts child languageA new study provides more evidence that reading books to young children and helping them visually to follow the story improves a child's language.
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Telethon Adventurers fund new brain tumour research fellowshipThe Telethon Adventurers have announced a new research fellowship to investigate the genes involved in childhood brain tumours.
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New study shows long term mental health benefits from extended breastfeedingA new study from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has shown that children who are breastfed for longer than six months have a lower risk
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Perth researchers decipher genetic pattern that predicts leukaemia relapseCancer researchers at Perth's The Kids for Child Health Research have discovered a genetic pattern that predicts the likelihood of relapse
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Birth Rates Rise After Baby Bonus PaymentsFertility rates increased following the introduction of the Federal government's "Baby Bonus" payments.
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Interleukin 10 gene polymorphisms and development of post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis in a selected sudanese populationPost kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a cutaneous form of disease that develops at variable times after individuals have received treatment.
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Hip displacement and scoliosis in Rett syndrome - screening is requiredThe prevalence of hip displacement and spinal deformity in a clinic population of females with Rett syndrome to define implications for screening and management
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Dual control of antitumor CD8 T cells through the programmed death-1/programmed death-ligand 1 pathway and immunosuppressive CD4 T cellsTumors have evolved multiple mechanisms to evade immune destruction. One of these is expression of T cell inhibitory ligands such as programmed death...