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Chronic wet cough in Aboriginal children: It's not just a cough

Results highlight the need for a culturally appropriate information and education of the importance of chronic wet cough in children

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Positive veteran teachers: Who are they, and where are they to be found?

This article reports on a study in Australia which sought to utilise the characteristics to identify positive veteran teachers within a larger cohort

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Effect of Albuterol Premedication vs Placebo on the Occurrence of Respiratory Adverse Events in Children Undergoing Tonsillectomies: The REACT Randomized Clinical Trial

Determine whether inhaled albuterol sulfate (salbutamol sulfate) premedication decreases the risk of perioperative respiratory adverse events

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Inter-rater and intra-rater reliability and agreement of echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease using the World Heart Federation evidence-based criteria

The WHF echocardiographic criteria enable reproducible categorisation of echocardiograms as definite RHD versus no or borderline RHD

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Personalized transcriptomics reveals heterogeneous immunophenotypes in children with viral bronchiolitis

Dysregulated expression of IFN-dependent pathways after respiratory viral infections is a defining immunophenotypic feature of AVB-susceptible infants

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CASSETTE-clindamycin adjunctive therapy for severe Staphylococcus aureus treatment evaluation: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

This study will assess the effect of adjunctive clindamycin on patient-centred outcomes in severe, toxin-mediated S. aureus infections

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Identifying pediatric lung disease: A comparison of forced oscillation technique outcomes

These findings suggest the utility of specific FOT outcomes is dependent on the respiratory disease being assessed

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Is sport an untapped resource for recovery from first episode psychosis? A narrative review and call to action

Sport-based interventions could be an opportunity to provide intervention to individuals recovering from their first psychotic episode

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Impact of social disadvantage on cerebral palsy severity

In Australia, socio-economic disadvantage at birth impacts adversely on cerebral palsy severity at age 5 years

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Effect of combining pre-exercise carbohydrate intake and repeated short sprints on the blood glucose response to exercise in young individuals with Type 1 diabetes

When carbohydrates are ingested prior to moderate-intensity exercise, adding repeated sprints is not significantly detrimental to glycaemic management