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Parental smoking and risk of childhood brain tumors

Childhood brain tumors (CBT) are the leading cause of cancer death in children, yet their etiology remains largely unknown.

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Eating disorder symptom trajectories in adolescence

Adolescence is a period of developmental risk for eating disorders and eating disorder symptoms.

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Familial aggregation of malignant mesothelioma in former workers and residents of Wittenoom, Western Australia

Clustering of cases of malignant mesothelioma within families has often been observed, but disentangling genetic and exposure effects has not been done.

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Approaches to study the lifelong trajectories of children with neurodevelopmental conditions

We argue that population-based studies are critical to overcome the selection bias seen in many clinical samples and to identify true variability within a...

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Setting the RECORD straight: Developing a guideline for the reporting of studies conducted using observational routinely collected data

There has been a dramatic increase in the availability of "routine data" for research purposes, including data from electronic medical records,...

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Parental alcohol consumption and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and brain tumors

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood malignancy and brain tumors (CBTs) are the leading cause of cancer death in...

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Women’s Views of their Maternity Services Experience

The following sections of this report result from a project undertaken to develop a theoretically-framed survey tool for use in monitoring and evaluating...

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Evaluation of a new measure of mood intolerance, the Tolerance of Mood States Scale (TOMS): Psychometric properties and associations

This research aimed to (i) validate a new measure of mood intolerance, the Tolerance of Mood States (TOMS) scale, and (ii) to examine associations between...

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Fructose intake and food sources in West Australian adolescents

This research aimed to cross-sectionally quantify fructose consumption and identify major food sources of fructose in adolescents...