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How fundraising can push forward the frontiers of medical research

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Your risk of Motor Neurone Disease where you live: "Australians would be shocked".

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INTERVIEW: What does Australia's latest health report reveal ?

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'The need is constant': Red Cross calls for more blood donors

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INTERVIEW: Professor Margie Danchin on falling vaccination rates

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Advocates cheer decision to make showers free for home-based aged care

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"Difficult, unavoidable": NDIS overhaul aims to reduce participation and target fraudulent providers

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Free RSV vaccinations for older Australians

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'It impacted the relationship with my culture': When culture, cuisine and a chronic illness combine

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Report finds widespread discrimination against trans and gender diverse people

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INTERVIEW: Could First Nations methods improve mental health treatment?

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Unapproved Peptides: When Social Media Replaces the Doctor

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Could First Nations wisdom and experience improve mental health and wellbeing?

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Scottish MPs reject assisted dying - and England's House of Lords looks set to follow suit

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'It shouldn't be painful to be a woman': Victorian report lays bare health care battle

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'Heartbreaking': Experts argue egg donation rules could change to help Australia's fertility issues

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New concussion guidelines launched to help patients get the right care

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Aged care reforms: Who will pay more under the new system?

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Kidney disease drug added to PBS, helping 65,000 Australians

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Peanut butter loving babies are licking allergies, study suggests

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Breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast cancer, researchers say

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Is your job burning you out? Experts say better boundaries and workplace connections can help

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The miscarriage data gap and 'invisible loss' leaving Australian women behind

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California sends ultraprocessed school meals to the sin bin

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New workplace laws aim to remove extra pain burden on parents arising from stillbirth

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GP snapshot reveals why the job has become more complicated

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Advocates alarmed as major change for autistic kids looms

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INTERVIEW: Could a First Nations voice help tackle stubborn public health challenges?

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Australian men face loneliness crisis: what’s driving it and how to fix it

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A new First Nations voice to guide Australia's public health sector

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Decision to allow registered nurses to prescribe medicines solves many health service problems

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New guidelines developed for helping people with dementia

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I feel like privacy is dead: IVF data breach triggers interest in class action lawsuit

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Loo scrolling: Study investigates link between this bathroom habit and a painful health condition

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Australian women are living longer but it's not all good news

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Radiotherapy could save your life: dispelling the misconceptions

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20,000 more aged care packages more quickly after Labor agrees to Coalition deal

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Australia - allergy capital of the world

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Autism stakeholders welcome new government commitment - but are perplexed they weren't consulted

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Would you seek contraceptive advice from TikTok?

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Chikungunya: a new mosquito-borne virus to contend with

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Global fertility rates are dropping: it could spell disaster in the future

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INTERVIEW: High hopes for new HIV vaccine

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Are you delaying the dentist because of cost? Your children shouldn't be.

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Hepatitis warning: migrant communities disproportionately affected by the silent killer

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Australian early intervention program for deaf children piloted in Japan

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"We need the slip, slop, slap of brain health - now": Advocates call for new national approach to dementia

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Report finds people with chronic pain continue to suffer from stigma

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Second case of rare mpox strain discovered in traveller

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The final farewell isn’t easy. This growing service helped Vibha and thousands like her

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New babies born free of devastating genetic diseases using DNA from three people

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Could it be meningococcal? Australia approaches the high-risk disease's peak season

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Early action urged on diabetes, one of Australia's most common killers

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'Liquid gold' donations to flow after Lifeblood's new sexual activity rules take effect

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SBS talks to family creation lawyer Sarah Jefford on Australia's review into surrogacy laws

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What are the withdrawal effects of antidepressants? A new review explores the issue

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INTERVIEW: Australia among first countries to launch lung cancer screening program

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New screening program offers hope for those most at risk of lung cancer

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INTERVIEW: Professor Andrew Sindone talks to SBS about heart failure

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Former CDC staffers ring alarm bells over decisions of new US vaccine panel

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Doctors' groups take temperature on appetite for health care reform

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Suicide prevention workshops in language try to help refugees, asylum seekers find mental wellness

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UK votes to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales

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Victoria to open Australia's second permanent pill testing site

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Cough up or queue up: the tough choice facing patients in need of specialist care

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When a good deed becomes a privacy disaster: a sperm donor speaks out

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CHOICE study doesn't diminish sunscreen's importance in melanoma capital of the world, advocates say

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Sporting competition with openly doped athletes set to launch in 2026

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New drug to treat early Alzheimer's adds to hopes for better treatment

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How a custom-made gene therapy could save one baby's life

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Passionate debate as bill to improve abortion access in regional NSW passes state parliament

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Palliative care in multicultural Australia

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INTERVIEW: The role of non-medical interventions in managing chronic pain

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Hysterectomy: the word that fails women suffering heavy periods

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Influenza cases surge: time to get vaccinated say experts

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Massive research project finds new ways to treat Osteoarthritis

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What does the genetic data revolution look like, now 23andMe is going bankrupt?

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New study finds high rate of chronic conditions in Australian teenagers

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New grant sends culturally targeted quit smoking program national

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GPs call for help to measure racism in the workplace to improve health care

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How neurodiversity can impact treatment of an eating disorder

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A hard pill to swallow: US call to impose tariffs on Australian pharmaceuticals

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Call for increased dental support for seniors

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New PBS listings offer timely and affordable treatment options for women

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INTERVIEW: Are we at risk from a Measles outbreak in Australia?

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Staying in control: helping young athletes beat body image issues

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Record breaking artificial heart implant is a life-saver

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Five years after COVID - are we ready for the next pandemic?

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Call first - decide later: women urged to pay attention to heart attack messages

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Despite high screening and diagnosis rates, Kate still found her breast cancer by accident

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New blood test could revolutionise dementia diagnoses

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INTERVIEW: How a plan to lose weight left Sarah sick and hospitalised

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New treatment brings hope for patients diagnosed with rare cancer

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Government unveils National Autism Strategy

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Federal government disputes new report suggesting GP costs on the rise

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INTERVIEW: Are we in danger from H5N1 Bird Flu?

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Tan-line social media trend triggers renewed calls to be Sun Smart

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Severe 2025 flu season likely, prompting calls to get vaccinated

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'We keep on poisoning ourselves and enjoying it': Experts call for cancer warnings on alcohol

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Is the way we diagnose mental health conditions fit for purpose? Part 2