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Activities of daily living in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy: a cross-sectional evaluation using the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills

( 2006) Van Zelst, B R ; Miller, Michelle Deanne ; Russo, Remo Nunzio (Ray) ; Murchland, Sonya R ; Crotty, Maria

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Advocacy as a means to an end: Assisting refugee women to take control of their reproductive health needs

( 2006) Guerin, Pauline Bernadette ; Allotey, Pascale ; Elmi, Fatuma Hussein ; Baho, Samia

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Amylase-resistant starch as adjunct to oral rehydration therapy in children with diarrhea

( 2006) Young, Graeme Paul ; Binder, Henry J ; Raghupathy, Palany ; Ramakrishna, Balakrishnan S ; Oommen, Samuel P ; Ahmed, Mir S ; Priyaa, G. Hari ; Dziura, James

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Assessing health status in neurology

(Taylor & Francis, 2005) Taylor, Nik ; Story, L ; McVeigh, E ; Jenkinson, C ; Kennedy, S

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The Burden and Outcome of Respiratory Tract Infection in Australian and Aboriginal Children

( 2007) Leach, Amanda Jane ; Morris, Peter Stanley

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Cells from mature human milk are capable of cytokine production following in vitro stimulation

( 2004) Gibson, Robert Alan ; Hawkes, Joanna Susan ; Bryan, Dani-Louise Louise

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Compared to placebo, long-term antibiotics resolve otitis media with effusion (OME) and prevent acute otitis media with perforation (AOMwiP) in a high-risk population: A randomized controlled trial

( 2008) Leach, Amanda Jane ; Matthews, John D ; Morris, Peter Stanley

Background : For children at high risk of chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM), strategies to prevent acute otitis media with perforation (AOMwiP) may reduce progression to CSOM. Methods : In a double blind study in northern Australia, 103 Aboriginal infants with first detection of OME were randomised to receive either amoxicillin (50 mg/kg/d BD) or placebo for 24 weeks, or until bilateral aerated middle ears were diagnosed at two successive monthly examinations (success). Standardised clinical assessments and international standards for microbiology were used. Results : Five of 52 infants in the amoxicillin group and none of 51 infants in the placebo group achieved success at the end of therapy (Risk Difference = 9.6% [95% confidence interval 1.6,17.6]). Amoxicillin significantly reduced the proportion of children with i) perforation at the end of therapy (27% to 12% RD = -16% [-31,-1]), ii) recurrent perforation during therapy (18% to 4% RD = -14% [-25,-2]), and iii) reduced the proportion of examinations with a diagnosis of perforation during therapy (20% to 8% adjusted risk ratio 0.36 [0.15,0.83] p = 0.017). During therapy, the proportion of examinations with penicillin non-susceptible (MIC > 0.1 microg/ml) pneumococci was not significantly different between the amoxicillin group (34%) and the placebo group (40%). Beta-lactamase positive non-capsular H. influenzae (NCHi) were uncommon during therapy but more frequent in the amoxicillin group (10%) than placebo (5%). Conclusion : Aboriginal infants receiving continuous amoxicillin had more normal ears, fewer perforations, and less pneumococcal carriage. There was no statistically significant increase in resistant pneumococci or NCHi in amoxicillin children compared to placebo children who received regular paediatric care and antibiotic treatment for symptomatic illnesses.

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Current issues regarding the use of pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines in Australian children

( 2005) Morris, Peter Stanley ; Carapetis, Jonathan R ; Leach, Amanda Jane ; Mackenzie, Grant

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Decisions for the fate of frozen embryos: fresh insights into patients' thinking and their rationales for donating or discarding embryos

( 2007) De Lacey, Sheryl Lynne

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Does the way that women experience the onset of labour influence the duration of labour?

( 2006) Gross, Mechthild M ; Hecker, Hartmut ; Matterne, Andrea ; Guenter, Hans H ; Keirse, Marc Jozef

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Double disadvantage: the influence of ethnicity over socioeconomic position on childhood overweight and obesity: findings from an inner urban population of primary school children

( 2008) O'Connor, Thea ; Magarey, Anthea Margaret ; Waters, Elizabeth ; Ashbolt, R ; Gibbons, Kay ; Green, J ; Lo, Sing Kai ; Gold, Lisa ; Garrard, J ; Swinburn, Boyd A ; Booth, Michael ; Gibbs, Lisa