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Fragranced consumer products: effects on asthmatic AustraliansMost asthmatics would prefer workplaces, healthcare facilities, and environments that are fragrance-free, which could help reduce adverse effects
The Advancing Innovation in Respiratory (AIR) Health Team is a multi-disciplinary group with skills in clinical medicine, physiology, psychology, and in cellular and molecular biology, that are committed to improving the lives of children with respiratory diseases and their families.
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Collaboration key to wet cough preventionPrevalence of chronic lung disease in Aboriginal children is conservatively estimated at 1.5 per cent
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Clinical utility of preoperative pulmonary function testing in pediatricsPerioperative respiratory adverse events pose a significant risk in pediatric anesthesia, and identifying these risks is vital. Traditionally, this is assessed using history and examination. However, the perioperative risk is multifactorial, and children with complex medical backgrounds such as chronic lung disease or obesity may benefit from additional objective preoperative pulmonary function tests.
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The influence of moving walls on respiratory aerosol deposition modellingThis work initially examines particle deposition in a Weibull-type geometry, comparing traditional computational fluid dynamics approaches with a novel...
The Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre is made up of multi-disciplinary teams that are committed to improving the lives of children and their families living with respiratory disease.
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Prestigious grants to support lung health and suicide prevention researchTwo researchers focused on improving outcomes for children with chronic lung disease and averting suicide contagion and suicide clusters in young people have won prestigious Investigator Grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
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Key paediatric messages from the 2018 European Respiratory Society International CongressGroup Chairs and early career members highlight some of the most interesting findings in the field of paediatrics presented at the 2018 international ERS Congress
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Expiratory flow limitation and breathing strategies in overweight adolescents during submaximal exerciseYoung people who are overweight/obese are more likely to display expFL during submaximal exercise compared with children of healthy weight.
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Top researchers recognised for respiratory researchTwo leading researchers from The Kids received significant endorsements to advance their research at last night’s Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science (TSANZSRS) Annual Scientific Meeting in Adelaide.