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Why BMI is being sidelined in the diagnosis of obesity

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How much sugar are you feeding your toddler?

103

What's your sports bra got to do with your knees?

104

Why aren't kids getting the food they need at childcare?

105

Could a bacterial strain spark bowel cancer?

106

Should you exercise more or get surgery for knee pain?

107

Are they natty, or are they taking steroids to get buff?

108

Why these fertility experts are worried about plastic

109

Chair yoga: as good as the real thing?

110

Why Australia's called the 'allergy capital of the world'

111

Can your noisy knees predict the future?

112

Another Trump presidency could give kids more cavities

113

Inside the lab growing sheets of replacement skin

114

The parkrun phenomenon — and which runners keep coming back

115

Why are thousands of bags of blood being binned instead of donated?

116

Not all screens are equal — some help kids with mental health conditions

117

Got ADHD? There's a chance you have dyslexia too

118

The key to living past a hundred? Lie about your age

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Why don't we screen everyone for high risk genes?

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The man who dated his own kidney stone

121

Playing sport might protect against concussion harms

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Your phone might help you get a good night's sleep

123

Struggling to keep kids off screens? Here’s how to reduce the harm

124

Going for a bush walk? Your microbiome will thank you

125

Sport has two sex categories, but biology isn't that simple

126

The 'fertility' test that isn't a fertility test

127

The running group chasing pain relief

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Small steps to boost teen mental health

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Making pleasure accessible to every body

130

Your winter blues might be seasonal depression

131

Counting steps or minutes: How to track exercise

132

What space travel tells us about ageing

133

Can you cut a common cold short?

134

A plan of attack for migraine sufferers

135

Life-saving changes that could detect breast cancers earlier

136

Maintaining your mental fitness – and a new culprit for Alzheimer's disease?

137

The 'sweet poison' fructose myth, and outgrowing childhood allergies

138

Are cows giving us bird flu? And everything we (don't) know about nanoplastics

139

Iron for long-COVID, 'holy grail' flu shots, and prolonged grief disorder

140

Sports bras support knees, bird flu in milk, and health after prison release

141

Cow's milk for babies, therapy for trauma, and lives saved by COVID vaccines

142

Norman Swan on what is schizophrenia?

143

Treating UTIs (without cranberry juice) and re-examining gender care

144

When your private health won't pay, and flu vaccine options

145

The bacteria causing bowel cancer, and how to make indoor air safer

146

ADHD medication a lifesaver? Will cancer treatment damage your ovaries?

147

Scrapping the term Long-COVID? Is toddler food bad? And the sick quitter effect

148

Short sleep and diabetes | Menopause and mood | VR patients and emergency

149

Exercise and depression | Melanoma and access to treatment | Comprehensive research on Sarcoidosis

150

CORONACAST BONUSCAST: New numbers around (super rare) vaccine side effects

151

News on long COVID and indoor air quality | Visualising plaque in your arteries | An under-tested blood fat | Kids' risk of poor health in the youth justice system

152

Insomnia, sun exposure | Low-carb diets | Sodium in food | Hepatitis in kids | Social prescribing

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Food for kids in childhood centres—are their brains being starved? | Getting an autism diagnosis as an adult

154

Why fentanyl isn't so big in Australia? | Risks of under-vaccination | Breast cancer after an early scare | AI shaking up radiology

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GLP1 agonists and weight loss | Opioids and cancer pain | Don't neglect dental care | Some back pain resolves, some lingers | Synaesthesia

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Australian immunisation rates drop | What are 'incidentalomas'?

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'Life and potential death': Being diagnosed with cancer while pregnant

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Care and detection of younger onset dementia | Breastfeeding aversion

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Where does Australia stand on drug decriminalisation?

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ADHD clinics and the diagnosis explosion | Chat GPT and virtual health care

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Invigorating ice baths | Waves in the dying brain | Gaming and exercise

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Body dysmorphic disorder | Benefits of a low-salt diet | Primary aldosteronism | How a country buys its drugs

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Concerns about a cancer therapy | Promise and risk in health AI | Where are all the psychiatrists? | Tackling high blood pressure

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Respiratory illnesses in China | ACL injury in women | GP referrals to psychiatrists

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CORONACAST BONUSCAST: The latest wave, a new vaccine and let's talk about lockdowns

166

Weighing the data on legal cannabis | Overuse of antimicrobials | Delayed cord cutting in premature babies

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Senate report on ADHD | ABC Birth Project responses | Yellow fever and mosquito-borne diseases | Assessing our spending on health

168

Narcolepsy and its strange symptoms | Body clocks and our sleep

169

Vitamin C, COVID, and cancer | Hand arthritis, and new treatment | Birthing in the COVID world | Blood cancer treatment advances

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Atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation, stroke, and dementia | A bank for poo | Survey to improve care in general practice

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A new treatment for PTSD | Why blood pressure cuff size matters | Diversity of participants in cancer trials

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The Voice is a health issue—hearing again the reasons why | Diabetes and cause of death

173

The versatility of 3D printing in healthcare—for prosthetics, training surgeons, scaffolds, and new skin for burns

174

Pre-operative assessments | Kids, sinusitis, and antibiotics | Kids, fainting, and an unusual heart rhythm | Knee replacements and digital rehab

175

The science of sleep

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A clearer view of diagnostic error | Monkeys, semaglutide, and addiction | Exercise and gamification

177

The latest research on Long COVID | Healing worms | Talking about weight loss

178

Learning from Mexican food nutrition labels | Perils of sitting | Misleading fertility tests | Which uterine surgery is better?

179

New ovarian cancer test | Testosterone | How the PAP test began | A deep look at sleep

180

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome | Vigorous Incidental Lifestyle Physical Activity | Cochlear implants

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Importance of The Voice for Aboriginal health | Bush tucker and health in Balgo

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Metastatic breast cancer | Free gene analysis for rare cancers | Best exercises to lower blood pressure

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New Australian guidelines for cardio vascular disease | Phone-connected device can collect heart rhythm data | Panel discussion on reducing red and processed meat consumption

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Ketamine for depression | Ultrasound instead of X-ray | WHO on Aspartame and dietary guidelines

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Women and strength training | sports food nutrition and labelling | subjective memory study in twins | opioids not beneficial for back pain

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Improving diagnosis and care in younger onset dementia | Recognising and overcoming breastfeeding aversion

187

Health in the news this week | opioid deprescribing | Parkinsons and contaminants | tonsillectomy in adults

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Talking and tragedy | Psychedelic-assisted therapy and harms | Cannabis in pregnancy | Chronic low back pain

189

Electrical signals in the dying brain | A positive film about palliative care | New government system to assess trials

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Medication searches and obesity correlations | Diabetes and exercise benefits | Peripheral artery disease and women

191

Could the shingles vaccine lower dementia risk? And ADHD clinics cashing in on demand

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Warnings about artificial sweeteners | ultra-processed foods and depression | strategies to reduce medical waste

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Gene therapy approval advances for Duchenne MD | Psychotherapy for depression in pregnancy | Child neglect links to poor health later | Protection against eye injury

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Health bots give good empathy but how about medical advice? | hormonal contraception and depression risk | new lung cancer screening program

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Normalising menopause | Prostate cancer treatment | Life after an organ transplant | New requirements for cosmetic procedures

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A virtual assistant fluent in sign language | Biodiversity loss and human health | Quitting vaping | RSV vaccine

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Where Australia stands on drug decriminalisation

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'Life and potential death': Being diagnosed with cancer while pregnant

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Rise in injecting drug use | Schizophrenia and sudden death | Change needed in bypass surgery | Breakthrough in cause of fatigue

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Bone marrow registry's recruitment drive | Trials and errors of alopecia treatment | Prostate cancer screening