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Tumor eradication after cyclophosphamide depends on concurrent depletion of regulatory T cells

Tumor cell death potentially engages with the immune system. However, the efficacy of anti-tumor chemotherapy may be limited by tumor-driven...

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Unpacking the complex nature of the autism epidemic

This paper discusses changes in diagnostic criteria, decreasing age at diagnosis, improved case ascertainment, diagnostic substitution, and social influences.

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Monitoring child abuse and neglect at a population level: patterns of hospital admissions for maltreatment and assault

To investigate the prevalence, trends, and characteristics of maltreatment and assault related hospital admissions and deaths among children;

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Anxiety disorders and cigarette smoking: Results from the Australian Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

The aim of this study was to describe current and daily smoking rates, and smoking cessation rates in adults with anxiety disorders

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No role for neutrophil elastase in influenza-induced cellular recruitment, cytokine production or airway hyperresponsiveness in mice

Previous studies have suggested that in vitro modulation of neutrophil chemokines and inflammatory cytokines by neutrophil elastase (NE) does not translate to t

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Trajectories of childhood body mass index are associated with adolescent sagittal standing posture

The objective of this study is to identify distinct age-related trajectory classes of body mass index (BMI) z-scores from childhood to adolescence

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Closing the gaps in and through Indigenous health research: Guidelines, processes and practices

Research in Aboriginal contexts remains a vexed issue given the ongoing inequities and injustices in Indigenous health.

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Emerging issues in the Pacific Basin

This review provides a snapshot of some key environmental health issues that will provide ongoing challenges for the Pacific Basin region in the coming decades

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Neonatal immune function and inflammatory illnesses in later life: lessons to be learnt from the developing world?

With the emergence of allergic and autoimmune diseases in populations that have started to transit to a western lifestyle, there has been an increasing...

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Randomised controlled trial analysing supplementation with 250 versus 500 units of vitamin D3,

The rate of non-compliance with vitamin D supplementation is as high as 45%. This is why randomised controlled trials are needed to analyse the response...