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Genetic and environmental factors in the aetiology of hypospadias

The increasing use of assisted reproductive techniques and hormonal manipulation during pregnancy may have been associated with an apparent rise in the...

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If it’s about me, why do it without me? Genuine student engagement in school cyberbullying education

This study reports on a three-year group randomized controlled trial, the Cyber Friendly Schools Project (CFSP), aimed to reduce cyberbullying among grade 8...

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Expanding the clinical picture of the MECP2 Duplication syndrome

Perinatal characteristics, early childhood development and medical co-morbidities in MECP2 Duplication syndrome

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Parental perspectives on the communication abilities of their daughters with Rett syndrome

How females with Rett syndrome communicate in everyday life and the barriers and facilitators to successful communication

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A Retrospective case-series of children with bone and joint infection from northern Australia

We report osteomyelitis incidence in indigenous children of northern Australia is amongst the highest reported in the world

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Screening for rheumatic heart disease: Quality and agreement of focused cardiac ultrasound by briefly trained health workers

After brief training, health workers with no prior experience in echocardiography can obtain adequate quality images and make a reliable assessment

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Systematic review and meta-analysis of respiratory viral coinfections in children

Coinfection is not associated with increased clinical severity, but further investigations by pathogen pairs are warranted

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25-hydroxyvitamin D status of pregnant women is associated with the use of antenatal vitamin supplements and ambient ultraviolet radiation

Vitamin D deficiency in a predominantly white Caucasian cohort of pregnant women is less prevalent than has been reported in other studies

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Early life rhinovirus infection exacerbates house-dust-mite induced lung disease more severely in female mice

Early life rhinovirus infection influences the development of house-dust-mite induced lung disease in female, but not male mice

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Alpha-1 antitrypsin mitigates the inhibition of airway epithelial cell repair by neutrophil elastase

Free NE activity is deleterious for epithelial homeostasis and support the hypothesis that proteases in the airway contribute to CF structural lung disease