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Directing immune development to curb sky-rocketing disease

Once upon a time it was infectious diseases like polio, measles or tuberculosis that most worried parents. With these threats now largely under control, parents face a new challenge – sky-rocketing rates of non-infectious diseases such as asthma, allergies and autism.

Trans young people can benefit from puberty suppression

A major review by WA researchers has found medication used to suppress puberty can improve the mental health of young people who are trans or gender diverse.

Psychosocial moderators of associations between life events and changes in physical activity after leaving high school

This study examines the associations between life events & changes in leisure-time physical activity after leaving high school in young people from rural...

Longer-term increased cortisol levels in young people with mental health problems

Hair segment analyses revealed longer-term increased levels of cortisol in the past 3 months in early mental health problems

Social environmental risk factors for transition to psychosis in an Ultra-High Risk population.

Despite social environmental factors such as deprivation, urbanicity, migration and adversity being established risk factors for psychotic disorders...

Risk factors for decline in IQ in youth with type 1 diabetes over the 12 years from diagnosis/illness onset

This study examined illness-related change in intelligence quotient (IQ) in a cohort of youth with type 1 diabetes studied prospectively from disease onset...

Children and young people at risk of disengagement from school

The review examines the international literature to determine how disengagement can be defined & understood, & then examines student disengagement in Australia.

Early diet quality in a longitudinal study of Australian children: associations with nutrition and body mass index later in childhood and adolescence

The aims of this study were to determine whether early childhood dietary quality was associated with (a) infant and adolescent nutrition and (b) body mass...

Effect of the increase in "alcopops" tax on alcohol-related harms in young people: a controlled interrupted time series

The objective of this study was to measure alcohol-related harms to the health of young people presenting to emergency...

The western dietary pattern is prospectively associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in adolescence

In centrally obese adolescents with NAFLD, a healthy dietary pattern may be protective, whereas a Western dietary pattern may increase the risk.