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Elucidation of pathways driving asthma pathogenesis: Development of a systems-level analytic strategy

Whereas asthma was rare in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the marked increase in its incidence and prevalence since the 1960s points to substantial gene ×...

Pregnant women sought for autism study

Pregnant women who already have an autistic child are being sought for a study by the Autism Research Team at WA's The Kids for Child Health Research.

Alcohol Health Warnings Protect Mums and Babies

Researchers at Perth's The Kids for Child Health Research support calls for mandatory health warning labels on alcohol products.

Telethon Institute researcher in nation's top ten

Head of nutrition research at Perth's The Kids for Child Health Research named in the nation's top 10 health and medical researchers for 2010.

Mandatory folate fortification a win for Australian families

The introduction of mandatory fortification of bread making flour with folate will save hundreds of families every year from the heartbreak of birth defefects

Parental occupational exposure to pesticides and risk of childhood cancer in Switzerland: a census-based cohort study

Pesticide exposure is a suspected risk factor for childhood cancer. We investigated the risk of developing childhood cancer in relation to parental occupational exposure to pesticides in Switzerland for the period 1990-2015.

Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms are associated with severity of wheezing illnesses and asthma exacerbations in children

These findings suggest that genetic variants at the VDR locus may play a role in acute wheeze/asthma severity in children

Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy: Profile of women admitted to a Western Australian tertiary obstetric hospital

This retrospective study assessed maternal and perinatal outcomes for women with rheumatic heart disease admitted to the largest tertiary obstetric hospital

Association between pregnant women's experience of stress and partners’ fly-in-fly-out work

There is some evidence that the pregnant partners of fly-in-fly-out workers perceive their lives to be more stressful

Vaccine acceptance: Science, policy, and practice in a ‘post-fact’ world

We must continue our efforts to promote vaccine acceptance and thus increase vaccination uptake, by fostering more effective vaccination communication