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Maternal Use of Folic Acid and Other Supplements and Risk of Childhood Brain Tumors

Interest in a possible protective effect of maternal vitamin use before or during pregnancy against childhood brain tumors (CBT) and other childhood cancers...

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Assisted reproductive technology and major birth defects in Western australia

The object of this work was to estimate the prevalence of major birth defects diagnosed by 6 years of age in all births and terminations of pregnancy for...

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Statistical adjustment of genotyping error in a case-control study of childhood leukaemia

Genotyping has become more cost-effective and less invasive with the use of buccal cell...

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Prevalence of and risk factors for human rhinovirus infection in healthy aboriginal and non-aboriginal western australian children

Human rhinovirus (HRV) species C (HRV-C) have been associated with frequent and severe acute lower respiratory infections and asthma in hospitalized children.

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Reduction in disparity for pneumonia hospitalisations between Australian indigenous and non-Indigenous children

In the 1990s pneumonia hospitalisation rates in Western Australia (WA) were 13 times higher in Indigenous children than in non-Indigenous children...

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Parental occupational exposure to engine exhausts and childhood brain tumors

Childhood brain tumors (CBT) are the leading cause of cancer death in children; their risk factors are still largely unknown.

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Participation in population-based case-control studies: Does the observed decline vary by socio-economic status?

An Australian study of childhood leukaemia (Aus-ALL) previously reported that control participation was positively associated with socio-economic status...

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Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure and increased risk of stillbirth

The objective was to investigate the association between heavy prenatal alcohol exposure and stillbirth.

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Sense of control and wellbeing decades after exposure to blue asbestos at Wittenoom, Western Australia

The objective of this study was to examine the impact of the knowledge of past asbestos exposure on psychosocial health.