Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) researchers publish more than 100 papers every month.
If you’re a WSLHD author, you can contact the district’s Digital Repository ‘DSpace’ to inform them of your published work by emailing WSLHD-BlacktownHospitalLibrary@health.nsw.gov.au.
The WSLHD Digital Repository is an open access, institutional repository managed by WSLHD Libraries. This repository stores and showcases the research output of staff and preserves a historical collection of archival material.
The latest research papers from week commencing 1 December 2025include:
- Exploring the interplay between metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and gut dysbiosis: Pathophysiology, clinical implications, and emerging therapies.
- Phage therapy: An international survey of attitudes and experiences amongst clinicians.
- Impact of ultraviolet radiation on bone density and muscle strength in postmenopausal women: a randomized controlled study.
- Treatment patterns and outcomes for ALK+ aNSCLC in Australia; Results from Australasian thoracic cancers.
- Investigating the associations between oral health behaviours and outcomes, in the context of the social gradient in oral health.
- The impact of integrating oral health education in cardiac rehabilitation: A randomised controlled trial.
- Detection of genes associated with polymyxin and antimicrobial peptide resistance in isolates of pseudomonas aeruginosa.
- Have we [fully] untapped the potential of allied health in the Australian healthcare system?
- Delayed onset of myotoxicity following red-bellied black snake envenoming.
- Inference of epidemic networks: The effect of different data types.
- Clinical and immunological biomarker profiling to improve the diagnosis of acute uveitis.
- The effectiveness of preoperative oral carbohydrate loading on postoperative nausea and vomiting in adults receiving total intravenous anaesthesia compared to inhalational anaesthesia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
- A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data.
- Internal Limiting Membrane Flap Versus Conventional Peeling for Idiopathic Full Thickness Macular Holes: A Registry Analysis of 2990 Eyes.
- Intravascular haemolysis following pulsed field ablation pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation: A systematic review.
- Predictors of treatment response in low-grade serous ovarian cancer cell lines.
- Hepatitis B viral DNA integration occurs within three days of infection and is enhanced by ATR inhibition.
- Blinatumomab consolidation in children with high-risk first-relapse B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: Final 5-year follow-up analysis of a randomized multicenter phase 3 study.
- Bilateral internal carotid artery stenting for medication-refractory recurrent ischaemic strokes secondary to intracranial giant cell arteritis.
- Access to essential medications and technologies: Mind the gap.
- Understanding factors influencing decision making during assessment of potential organ donors: A qualitative study of clinicians assessing the medical suitability of potential donors.
- Counseling interventions to reduce domestic violence against women: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
- Isolation and characterization of a potent bacteriophage KA targeting an antibiotic-resistant human pathogenic strain of klebsiella pneumoniae KP1.
- Clinical Need and Research Investment for Liver Cancer in Australia.
- When patients refuse blood products: An informed consent approach.
- Neck flexion weakness predicts respiratory dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- A case of life-threatening systemic botulism from unlicensed cosmetic botulinum toxin administration.
- A rare case of acquired idiopathic generalised anhidrosis with response to pulse corticosteroid therapy.
- International consensuses and guidelines on central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) by the Asia Pacific Vitreo-retina Society (APVRS), the Academy of Asia-Pacific Professors of Ophthalmology (AAPPO) and the Academia Retina Internationalis (ARI).
- Factors influencing antimicrobial decision-making in respiratory tract infections: A qualitative interview study with physicians and antimicrobial stewardship pharmacists.
- Preserving neurological function in people at high and low risk of aggressive multiple sclerosis.
- International consensuses and guidelines on rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) surgery by the Asia-Pacific Vitreo-retina Society (APVRS), the Academy of Asia-Pacific Professors of Ophthalmology (AAPPO) and the Academia Retina Internationalis (ARI).
- Post-resuscitation care after adult extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A scoping review.
- Strategies to manage the oral health impacts of head and neck cancer treatment: A scoping review.
- Acute neuropsychiatric disturbance due to nitrous oxide abuse in the absence of neuropathy or myelopathy.
- Acute painful polyneuropathy as an atypical presentation of aortoiliac arterial stenosis.
- Taking the wrong piece, the importance of targeted biopsies.
- Atypical presentation of Miller Fisher syndrome – A diagnostic challenge.
- Novel machine-learning models outperform non-invasive tests in MASH with fibrosis.
- A pilot prospective study of arterial stiffness during weight restoration in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.
- Differences in peak oxygen uptake in heart failure patients with and without cachexia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Elevated serum neurofilament is associated with disease activity in real-world relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients.
- Elebsiran and PEG-IFNα for chronic hepatitis B infection: a partially randomized, open-label, phase 2 trial.
- Low influenza, pneumococcal and herpes zoster vaccination coverage in Australian patients commencing a biologic or targeted synthetic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug for inflammatory arthritis: A nationwide cross-sectional data linkage study.
- Pancreatic volume and immune biomarkers predict checkpoint inhibitor-associated autoimmune diabetes in humans.
- Peripapillary retinoschisis: The expanded spectrum and new insights from multimodal imaging.
- N-acetylcysteine in the treatment of ischaemic stroke: A systematic review.