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Enhancing psychological wellbeing in families from pregnancy to infancy

Can baby’s early movements predict learning difficulties later in childhood?

This project aims to investigate the impact of a non-severe burn injury on children's health for life.

Does eating cashew nut spreads in the first year of life reduce the chances a baby will develop a cashew nut food allergy?

This study explores the role of infant sleep in early childhood development.

Providing expectant and new Dads with a health check-up

ORIGINS is no longer offering courier services or home collection of samples.

Research

The re-emergence of scarlet fever poses a new global public health threat. The capacity of North-East Asian serotype M12 (emm12) Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus, GAS) to cause scarlet fever has been linked epidemiologically to the presence of novel prophages

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Sensitive measures of early lung disease are being integrated into therapeutic trials and clinical practice in cystic fibrosis (CF). The impact of early disease surveillance (EDS) using these novel and often intensive techniques on young children and their families is not well researched.

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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a global cause of severe respiratory morbidity and mortality in infants. While preventive and therapeutic interventions are being developed, including antivirals, vaccines and monoclonal antibodies, little is known about the global molecular epidemiology of RSV. INFORM is a prospective, multicenter, global clinical study performed by ReSViNET to investigate the worldwide molecular diversity of RSV isolates collected from children less than 5 years of age.