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The First Research Report: patterns and trends in mortality of Western Australian infants, children and young people 1980-2002

The Advisory Council on the Prevention of Deaths of Children and Young People today officially released this report.

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SunSmart messaging for WA young people

Engaging young people in sun safety messaging is important because they are vulnerable to the harmful long-term effects of too much sun exposure.

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Racial discrimination and allostatic load among First Nations Australians: a nationally representative cross-sectional study

Increased allostatic load is linked with racial discrimination exposure, providing a mechanism for the biological embedding of racism as a psychosocial stressor. We undertook an examination of how racial discrimination interacts with socioecological, environmental, and health conditions to affect multisystem dysregulation in a First Nations population.

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Population-based estimates of the effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in Australia

Australia’s Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) is one of only a handful of national immunisation registers world-wide.

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Impact of integrating traditional care with the modern healthcare system in reducing tuberculosis diagnosis delays in Ethiopia: a clustered randomized controlled study

Diagnosis and treatment initiation delays for tuberculosis (TB) are significant challenges in resource-limited settings. These delays can result in poor treatment outcomes, disease transmission, and increased costs. This study aimed to assess the effect of integrating traditional care with modern healthcare systems on reducing TB diagnosis delay. 

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Measles

Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease that can cause severe, long-term complications in children.

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Enteral Vitamin A for Reducing Severity of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Randomized Trial

Evidence suggests that intramuscular vitamin A reduces the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in preterm infants. Our objective was to compare enteral water-soluble vitamin A with placebo supplementation to reduce the severity of BPD in extremely preterm infants.

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A positive feedback loop between alpha1-adrenoceptors and inflammatory cytokines in keratinocytes

Our results suggest that reciprocal influences between alpha1-adrenoceptors and inflammatory cytokines may play a role in normal inflammatory responses

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A spatio-temporal analysis to identify the drivers of malaria transmission in Bhutan

Hot spots and clusters of both species were isolated in the central southern part of Bhutan bordering India

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The cumulative effect of inflammation and infection on structural lung disease in early cystic fibrosis

Pulmonary inflammation in surveillance bronchoalveolar lavage has a cumulative effect on structural lung disease extent, more so than infection