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Professor Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg AM FAHMSChair of Paediatric anaesthesia, University of Western Australia; Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Perth Children’s Hospital; Head, Perioperative Medicine
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The secret to longevity is to keep breathing (Sophie Tucker)Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg AM FAHMS MD, PhD, DEAA, FANZA Chair of Paediatric anaesthesia, University of Western Australia; Consultant
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Child health a focus in national research grantsThe Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have been awarded more than $8 million in prestigious project grants from the NHMRC.
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Crowding and other strong predictors of upper respiratory tract carriage of otitis media-related bacteriaStreptococcus pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, and nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae is associated with otitis media
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Bullying and psychosocial adjustment among children with and without asthmaChildren with asthma face serious mental health risk, but the pathways remain unclear. This study aimed to examine bullying victimisation and perpetration in children with asthma and a comparison sample without a chronic health condition, and the role of bullying in moderating psychosocial adjustment outcomes for those with asthma. A sample of children with and without asthma, and their parents, were recruited from hospital clinics.
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Asthma is responsible for considerable global morbidity and health-care costs. Substantial progress was made against key outcomes such as hospital admissions with asthma and mortality in the 1990s and early 2000s, but little improvement has been observedWe aim to provide our view of where we are and where we need to go as a community of clinicians and researchers who tackle the public health problem of asthma.
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PIFA - Pertussis and Food allergy, a case-cohort study of the association between pertussis vaccination in infancy and the risk of IgE-mediated food allergyPat Peter Tom Holt Richmond Snelling PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Emeritus Honorary Researcher
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Towards the establishment of the PREVAIL Centre, a Centre for PREcision in VAccine ImpLmentation at The Kids Research Institute AustraliaPat Tom Holt Snelling PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA BMBS DTMH GDipClinEpid PhD FRACP Emeritus Honorary Researcher Head, Infectious Disease
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WA Epithelial Research Program for Childhood Respiratory DiseasesOnce thought to be a simple barrier to the external environment, epithelial cells are involved in many repair and inflammatory processes that occur in childhood airway diseases.
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Wal-yan researchers welcomed at scientific meeting in New ZealandMore than 14 researchers from the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre will be welcomed as presenters and facilitators at The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and The Australia and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science (TSANZSRS) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) this weekend.