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Major grant empowers community voices to drive reduction in skin infections

Aboriginal community members throughout the Kimberley will take a lead role in driving healthy skin messages within their own communities thanks to a major funding boost to The Kids Research Institute Australia’s SToP Trial.

The six-minute tests that could save lives

Thanks to research, a six -second test can get the answers that could save a child’s life.

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Application of Population-Based Linked Data to the Study of Intellectual Disability and Autism

Data linkage is the bringing together of specific datasets from different sources using demographic information on individuals within a population.

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Relationship between family quality of life and day occupations of young people with Down syndrome

This study aimed to explore relationships between family quality of life, day occupations and activities of daily living of young persons with Down syndrome.

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Trends in sugar supply and consumption in Australia: is there an Australian Paradox?

High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain.

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Caring for a child with severe intellectual disability in China: The example of Rett syndrome

Intellectual disability affects more than 1.5% of the population of children in developing countries yet we know little about the daily lives and support...

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Clinic attendances during the first 12 months of life for Aboriginal children in five remote communities of northern Australia

The median number of presentations per child in the first year of life was 21 with multiple reasons for presentation.

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The association between perinatal testosterone concentration and early vocabulary development

Prenatal exposure to testosterone is known to affect fetal brain maturation and later neurocognitive function.

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Immune modulation by UV: Role of vitamin D

In this chapter, evidence for and evidence against the involvement of vitamin D in the immunoregulatory properties of UV radiation is presented.

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Consensus statement for inert gas washout measurement using multiple- and single- breath tests

Inert gas washout tests, performed using the single- or multiple-breath washout technique, were first described over 60 years ago.