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Family’s fundraising efforts a hole-in-oneWhen Meghan Bunter’s daughter was first diagnosed with diabetes, she felt overwhelmed not only with Ella’s diagnosis but also the flood of donation requests.
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Diabetes and the new school yearIt is important to make sure your school has an up-to-date diabetes management plan now that school has begun.
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An evaluation of GPT models for phenotype concept recognitionClinical deep phenotyping and phenotype annotation play a critical role in both the diagnosis of patients with rare disorders as well as in building computationally-tractable knowledge in the rare disorders field.
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The effect of TNF treatment uptake on incident hospital admission in Western AustraliaTreatment strategies for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have shifted significantly over the last 20 years. We examined the effect of the introduction of government-subsidised TNF inhibitor (TNFi) treatment on incident hospitalisation for JIA.
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Community forum and symposium a big successThe Children’s Diabetes Centre was honoured to have leading international experts Laurel Messer and Professor Mike Riddell as guest speakers at its community forum and research symposium recently.
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Advanced hybrid closed loop in paediatric population technology studyOur researchers are looking for young children with type 1 diabetes who are using an insulin pump, to take part in the advanced hybrid closed loop in paediatric (HyCLIP) population study.
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An observational study of antibody responses to a primary or subsequent pertussis booster vaccination in Australian healthcare workersAdult pertussis vaccination is increasingly recommended to control pertussis in the community. However, there is little data on the duration and kinetics of immunity to pertussis boosters in adults. We compared IgG responses to vaccination with a tetanus, low-dose diphtheria, low-dose acellular pertussis (Tdap) booster at 1 week, 1 month and 1 year post-vaccination in whole-cell (wP)-primed Australian paediatric healthcare workers who had received an adult Tdap booster 5-12 years previously, to those who received their first Tdap booster.
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An observational study of antibody responses to a primary or subsequent pertussis booster vaccination in Australian healthcare workersAdult pertussis vaccination is increasingly recommended to control pertussis in the community. However, there is little data on the duration and kinetics of immunity to pertussis boosters in adults. We compared IgG responses to vaccination with a tetanus, low-dose diphtheria, low-dose acellular pertussis (Tdap) booster at 1 week, 1 month and 1 year post-vaccination in whole-cell (wP)-primed Australian paediatric healthcare workers who had received an adult Tdap booster 5-12 years previously, to those who received their first Tdap booster. Tdap vaccination was well tolerated in both groups.
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Cholesterol and blood pressure drugs help teens with diabetesResearchers from the Children’s Diabetes Centre have had a lead role in a global adolescent Type 1 Diabetes study.