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More than 80,000 Australian children are expected to benefit from a trial being rolled out to 700 childcare centres across the country that aims to boost declining physical activity levels.

A program aimed at raising awareness of the dangers of a chronic wet cough in Aboriginal children has been extended to 14 remote and regional towns in Western Australia - thanks to a partnership between The Kids Research Institute Australia and Cystic Fibrosis WA.

An exciting study is investigating whether a new therapeutic treatment for asthma will protect young sufferers from ongoing lung damage and improve their long-term health outcomes.

What if researchers could shop for different data to help uncover how, when and why chronic conditions such as asthma, obesity, allergies and poor mental health develop?
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Role of public and private funding in the rising caesarean section rate: A cohort studyOur results indicate that an increase in the prelabour caesarean delivery rate for private patients in private hospitals has been driving the increase in the...
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Autism spectrum disorder in children born preterm: Role of exposure to perinatal inflammationThis review aims to summarise and evaluate the potential mechanisms and evidence for the role of prenatal infection on the central nervous system, and how it...
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Initial assessment of the StepWatch Activity Monitor™ to measure walking activity in Rett syndromeIn girls and women with Rett syndrome, we assessed the accuracy of the StepWatch Activity Monitor™ and investigated relationships between daily step counts,...
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Approaches to study the lifelong trajectories of children with neurodevelopmental conditionsWe argue that population-based studies are critical to overcome the selection bias seen in many clinical samples and to identify true variability within a...
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Antibacterial antibody responses associated with the development of asthma in house dust mite-sensitised and non-sensitised childrenWe aimed to measure the antibody development to 2 bacteria in a birth cohort at high risk of allergic disease, and to assess which responses are asthma-linked.
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Intellectual disability: Population-based estimates of the proportion attributable to maternal alcohol use disorder during pregnancyThe aim of this study was to examine the association between maternal alcohol use disorder and intellectual disability in children.