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Julie Bishop Award aims to help young female researchers jump career hurdles

The Kids Research Institute Australia Chair Julie Bishop has pledged $50,000 to fund an award designed to help young female researchers overcome persistent barriers to career and leadership success.

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Maternal Pre-pregnancy Body Mass Index and Offspring Temperament and Behavior at 1 and 2 Years of Age

Recent research suggests that fetal exposure to increased maternal body mass index (BMI) during pregnancy may be associated with psychopathology later in life.

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Immunogenicity and safety of measles-mumps-rubella and varicella vaccines coadministered

A pooled analysis was conducted of 1,257 toddlers who received a fourth dose of Haemophilus influenzae type b- Neisseria meningitidis serogroups C and...

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Impact of the Reelin signaling cascade (Ligands-Receptors-Adaptor Complex) on cognition in schizophrenia

Our previous neurocognitive studies of schizophrenia outlined two clusters of affected subjects-cognitively spared (CS) and cognitive deficit (CD), the...

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Clarithromycin therapy for patients with Cystic Fibrosis: A randomized controlled trial

The clinically significant actions of oral azithromycin in modifying progressive cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease have been well documented.

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Genetic variants in ER cofactor genes and endometrial cancer risk

Given that the transcriptional regulatory activity of estrogen receptor (ER) is modulated by its biochemical cofactors, genetic variation within the ER...

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A systematic review of risk factors for cerebral palsy in children born at term in developed countries

The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review in order to identify the risk factors for cerebral palsy (CP) in children born at term.

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Dietary patterns are associated with cognition among older people with mild cognitive impairment

This study examined the cross-sectional association between dietary patterns & cognition in a sample of 249 people, 65-90 years, with mild cognitive impairment

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Validation of a model for optimal birth weight: A prospective study using serial ultrasounds

The aim of this study was to validate a model for optimal birth weight derived from neonatal records, and to test the assumption that preterm births may be...

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Robustness, risk and responsivity in early language acquisition

Language is a robust developmental phenomenon, characterised by rapid and prodigious growth.