Otitis media is very common in Aboriginal children in Western Australia and chronic ear disease causes major problems in speech and language development and education. Up until recently, most programmes dealing with the problem of OM have focused on clinical interventions rather than prevention. The Enhanced Prevention Working Group was established as part of the WA Child Ear Health Strategy (2017–2021). The Group has worked collaboratively to develop a set of recommendations for prevention of OM in Aboriginal children. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

Treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media with topical antibiotics probably results in an increase in resolution of ear discharge compared with boric acid ...

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• 2020
• January 2020

The aim of this study was to generate a conceptual framework describing which aspects of children and adolescents' lives are affected by chronic tinnitus. ...

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• 2021
• September 2021

This Clinical Puzzle article describes our current knowledge of chronic otitis media and the existing research models for this condition ...

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• 2017
• November 2017

Our findings are in line with a number of epidemiological studies which show a positive association between breastfeeding and OM in early childhood ...

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• 2017
• February 2017

Conserved vaccine candidate proteins from S.pneumoniae induce serum and salivary antibody responses in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children with history of OM ...

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• 2017
• January 2017

To assess the effects of topical antibiotics for people with chronic suppurative otitis media. ...

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• 2018
• June 2018

The production of functional antipneumococcal antibodies in otitisprone children demonstrates that they respond to the current pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV)and are likely to respond to pneumolysin-based vaccines as effectively as healthy children. ...

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• 2017
• March 2017

Otitis media (OM) starts within weeks of birth in almost all Indigenous infants living in remote areas of the Northern Territory (NT). ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Sarra Jenefer Jamieson Blackwell SE JM BSc (Hons) MSc PhD BSc with First Class Honours, PhD, DSc, FMedSci, FAA Senior Research Fellow Head, Genetics ...

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