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New collaboration to boost kids early childhood development outcomes across AustraliaA new collaboration has been launched to fast track research into action to improve outcomes in the crucial early years of child development and learning.
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CrossTalk opposing view: Mucosal acidification does not drive early progressive lung disease in cystic fibrosisWhether airway mucosal acidification drives early progressive lung disease is controversial
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The Gender Wage Gap in the Vietnamese Transition, 1993–2008This essay examines wages and the gender wage gap between 1993 and 2008 in Vietnam
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum DisorderSupports healthcare professionals to understand how to make a diagnosis of FASD and to provide support for those diagnosed with FASD
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New research into Vitamin D and Sunlight has created Project D-LightProject D-Light aims to understand and harness the benefits of vitamin D and sunlight for Australian children while protecting them from excess UV.
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The fall and rise of Group A Streptococcus diseasesWe overview the changing epidemiology of Group A Streptococcus infections and the genetic alterations that accompany the emergence of Group A Streptococcus strains
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Re-think on strategies to prevent whooping cough in newbornsGovernments should rethink strategies to prevent whooping cough in newborn infants, including booster vaccination of close contacts of the baby.
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Determining the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine coverage required for indirect protection against vaccine-type pneumococcal carriage in low and middle-income countriesWe will investigate the relationship between PCV coverage and VT carriage among undervaccinated children in Asia and the Pacific
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Optimising the use of linked administrative data for infectious diseases research in AustraliaIncreased collaboration and engagement across all sectors can optimise the use of linked data to help reduce the burden of infectious diseases
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Scabies and risk of skin sores in remote Australian Aboriginal communities: A self-controlled case series studyThe association between scabies and skin sores is highly significant and indicates a causal relationship
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Medulloblastoma therapy generates risk of a poorly-prognostic H3 wild-type subgroup of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: a report from the International DIPG RegistryThese findings provide a compelling argument for efforts to reduce exposure of the brainstem in the treatment of medulloblastoma
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Every Friday: Child Health Research Seminars 2014Dr Howlett completed her PhD studies in 2009 at the MCRI in Melbourne, where she worked on gastric cancer cell signaling...a
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Inhalational versus Intravenous Induction of Anesthesia in Children with a High Risk of Perioperative Respiratory Adverse Events: A Randomized Controlled TrialAnesthesiologists should consider using an intravenous propofol induction technique in children who are at high risk of experiencing perioperative respiratory adverse event
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Conserved temporal ordering of promoter activation implicates common mechanisms governing the immediate early response across cell types and stimuliWe obtain a set of 57 candidate immediate early genes possessing promoters that consistently drive a rapid but transient increase in expression over time