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Developing a pencil grasp

In this blog, Senior Occupational Therapist Gayle Hillen explores the steps to developing a functional pencil grasp.

Communication tools

For Speech Pathology Week, we asked our speech pathologists to share their favourite resource/s and how they like to use it.

Boosting literacy by reading with children

In this blog, Speech Pathologist Genevieve Wilmot shares the strategies caregivers can use at story time with their child to make book sharing fun.

Shared Book Reading Program

Find out more about CliniKids' new program which boosts early language skills through book sharing.

Reading between the lines: making book sharing fun

In this blog, Speech Pathologist Genevieve Wilmot discusses the many benefits of book sharing and how it can promote connection and social and communication development.

Acceptability and Utility of a Virtual Reality Diabetes-Related Foot Disease Training Program for First Nations People: A Pragmatic Quasi-Experimental Case Series Study

To test the utility and acceptability of a novel VR training tool for community health practitioners in assessing diabetes-related foot disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Differing Epidemiology of Chronic Hepatitis C Infection, Treatment, and Outcomes Among Migrants and Australian-Born Patients

The burden of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection often falls disproportionately on migrant populations within high-income countries. Differences in health literacy, language, comorbidities, and HCV genotype may influence HCV natural history.

Body Mass Index Trajectories Among Patients with Drug-Susceptible and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Northwest Ethiopia

A retrospective cohort study was conducted using clinical data from patients attending TB clinics at four public hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia. We modelled BMI trajectories after TB treatment initiation using linear mixed models, with adjustments for potential confounders.

Relationship between serum clozapine to N-desmethyclozapine ratio and cognitive performance among people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia

We evaluated the relationship of serum clozapine and N-desmethyl clozapine and their ratio and cognition among people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, an area that has been sub-optimally researched. 

Vaccination

Vaccination is the injection of an inactivated bacteria or virus into the body. This simulated infection allows an individual's immune system to develop an adaptive immunity for protection against that type of illness. When a sufficiently large percentage of a population has been vaccinated, this results in herd immunity.