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Whooping cough vaccine could be a new weapon in the fight against food allergiesResearchers from The Kids Research Institute Australia and Curtin University will use a $3.9 million grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council to investigate whether a type of whooping cough vaccine could provide bonus protection against food allergies and eczema.
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UV inhibits allergic airways disease in mice by reducing effector CD4 T cellsIn human asthma, and experimental allergic airways disease in mice, antigen-presenting cells and CD4(+) effector cells at the airway mucosa orchestrate, and CD4
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Prolonged use of wind or brass instruments does not alter lung function in musiciansRespiratory function impacts on musical expression for wind/brass (W/B) musicians. Investigation of musicians' respiratory health to date has rarely...
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Rett Syndrome: Revised diagnostic criteria and nomenclatureThe purpose of this work was to revise and clarify 2002 consensus criteria for the diagnosis of RTT in anticipation of treatment trials.
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Children's language development 0-9 years. In Growing up in Australia:Language development is one of the most important developmental accomplishments of early childhood and is the foundation for literacy, educational...
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Overview of health issues in school-aged children with Down SyndromeOverview of Health Issues in School-aged Children with Down Syndrome
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Representativeness of child controls recruited by random digit diallingRecruiting control subjects who are representative of the population from which the cases are drawn is a challenge in case-control studies
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Effective adenovirus-mediated gene transfer into neural stem cells derived from human embryonic stem cellsHuman embryonic stem cell-derived neural stem cells (hESC-NSCs) are an attractive cell type for studying
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Antenatal services for Aboriginal women: the relevance of cultural competenceDue to persistent significantly poorer Aboriginal perinatal outcomes, the Women's and Newborns' Health Network, require a comprehensive appraisal...