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"Pre-emptive strike"-the case for early treatment of hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome with defibrotideWe describe the case of a child with a right 11th rib primitive neuroectodermal tumor who developed HSOS following focal radiotherapy and actinomycin-D treatment
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Can polymorphisms in the fatty acid desaturase (FADS) gene cluster alter the effects of fish oil supplementation on plasma and erythrocyte fatty acid profiles?Supplementation with fish oil may only significantly increase DHA in minor allele carriers of FADS1 SNPs
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Trajectories of childhood immune development and respiratory health relevant to asthma and allergyOur findings demonstrate the utility of unsupervised analysis in elucidating heterogeneity in asthma pathogenesis
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Measuring the capacity of active video games for social interaction: The Social Interaction Potential Assessment toolThe Social Interaction Potential Assessment tool can assess Active Video Games potential to facilitate social interaction among players
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Cord Blood IL-12 Confers Protection to Clinical Malaria in Early Childhood LifeCord blood background IL-12 concentrations are important for protecting children from clinical malaria
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Severe lower limb cellulitis: Defining the epidemiology and risk factors for primary episodes in a population-based case-control studySevere lower leg cellulitis presents a major burden to the health sector and is increasing with an ageing population
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Lessons learned in the development of sustained release penicillin drug delivery systems for the prophylactic treatment of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)The current prophylactic treatment to prevent rheumatic heart disease requires four-weekly intramuscular injection of a suspension of the poorly soluble benzathine salt form of penicillin G (BPG) often for more than 10 years. In seeking to reduce the frequency of administration to improve adherence, biodegradable polymer matrices have been investigated.
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How ‘healthy’ do children really need to be? Going beyond the limitsThe authors assessed the impact of including preschool‐aged children with a history of preterm birth, early life wheeze, asthma diagnoses and/or recent respiratory symptoms in healthy reference ranges for respiratory impedance using the forced oscillation technique (FOT).
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Choice making in Rett syndrome: a descriptive study using video dataWe describe the choice-making abilities of girls and women with Rett syndrome.
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Educational inequality across three generations in AustraliaUsing a dataset of Australian children, we have the opportunity to not only investigate the transfer of educational resources across 3 generations in Australia.