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Five-year Hedland FASD Project wraps upA five-year, $5 million research program funded by BHP and aimed at reducing the prevalence and impact of FASD in the Pilbara officially wrapped in South Hedland last night.
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Prostaglandin E2 imprints a long-lasting effect on dendritic cell progenitors in the bone marrowInjection of BM-differentiated DCs from nonchimeric mice restored the reduced immune responses of PGE2-chimeric mice.
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Parent Child Assistance Program - A Pilot Study in PerthMartyn Amy Symons Finlay-Jones B.A. (Hons) PhD. BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) Honorary Research Associate Head, Early
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Eating disorder symptom trajectories in adolescenceAdolescence is a period of developmental risk for eating disorders and eating disorder symptoms.
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Bigiswun Kid Project: a longitudinal study of adolescents living with high rates of prenatal alcohol exposure, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and early life trauma in remote Australian Aboriginal communitiesThe Lililwan Project was the first Australian population-based prevalence study of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) using active case ascertainment. Conducted in 2010-2011, the study included 95% of all eligible children aged 7-9 years living in the very remote Aboriginal communities of the Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia.
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Parental smoking and risk of childhood brain tumorsChildhood brain tumors (CBT) are the leading cause of cancer death in children, yet their etiology remains largely unknown.
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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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Neurocognitive functioning in adolescents with eating disorders: A population-based studyNeurocognitive deficits have been identified in eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
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Women’s Views of their Maternity Services ExperienceThe following sections of this report result from a project undertaken to develop a theoretically-framed survey tool for use in monitoring and evaluating...
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Transforming growth factor-Beta in milkFindings suggest that TGF-Beta in milk may influence the development of immunological outcomes in offspring.
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Setting the RECORD straight: Developing a guideline for the reporting of studies conducted using observational routinely collected dataThere has been a dramatic increase in the availability of "routine data" for research purposes, including data from electronic medical records,...
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Fructose intake and food sources in West Australian adolescentsThis research aimed to cross-sectionally quantify fructose consumption and identify major food sources of fructose in adolescents...
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Parental alcohol consumption and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and brain tumorsChildhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood malignancy and brain tumors (CBTs) are the leading cause of cancer death in...