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Sugary drinks, HPV screening and vaccination, metabolic disorders and mental health

402

Gene editing our way to better health?

403

Fainting and the emergency department, benzodiazepines and miscarriage, overdiagnosis of heart problem, opioids and end of life

404

A new form of dementia, stillbirth and pregnancy, social housing and healthcare, and Indigenous maternal health

405

Life expectancy in Australia, poor sense of smell and risk of death, generational drug use and a new class of antibiotics?

406

Clot-busting strokes, monitoring high-risk medicines and investing in a child's first thousand days

407

Health and the election, BCAA supplements and obesity and health star ratings

408

Wellbeing at work, quitting smoking, drug harms and dietary supplements

409

Personalised medicine: hope or hype?

410

Pulse pressure and Alzheimer's, mapping genomes to catch infectious diseases and the global burden of disease

411

Comparing alcohol and smoking, calculating your risk of going to hospital, the power of the word cancer and a HPV vaccine success

412

Calm babies and obesity, probiotics, a history of vaccinations, and mandatory reporting

413

Game theory and cancer, smell training for the brain and knee and hip replacements

414

Incidental exercise, universal dental care, STIs in remote Australia and the burden of brain disorders

415

Lolita's uterus transplant

416

Cannabis and mood, prostate cancer, the benefits of fibre and statins for older people

417

Period app privacy, eliminating cervical cancer and tackling the surgery gender gap

418

Housing and health, artificial intelligence and radiology, and ending a horrific childbirth injury

419

Critics lash proposed mental health changes and a new drug for breathlessness

420

Protect your heart with exercise

421

Is a dentist's clean worth it, surgery for shoulder pain, exercise to prevent falls and organ transplant research ethics

422

IVF 'scratching,' lung cancer, disorders of sex development and medical scribes

423

Babies and solid food, autism and depression, SIDS research and anxiety in children

424

Your lifetime risk of stroke, rehabilitation after stroke, pill testing and traditional Chinese medicine

425

Unravelling the Glasgow effect

426

Unlocking the secrets of venom

427

What next in the war on superbugs?

428

Fighting the good fight: eradicating polio is both political and personal

429

Rethinking what's best for low back pain

430

What's the future of medical research in Australia?

431

US blood pressure guidelines, telehealth for cancer treatment, future of medical research, welcoming the wellderly

432

Weird skin changes during pregnancy, tennis and long life, bowel cancer and cerebral palsy

433

Deadly devices, lacklustre regulation — unpacking The Implant Files

434

Diabetes drugs, omega-3 and pregnancy, spinal injury patients and bionic eyes

435

Omega-3 and vitamin D, low back pain education, sex differences for heart attack and opioid use in Australia

436

Bullying in healthcare, chlamydia testing, new pregnancy guidelines and spinal injury treatment

437

Extremely premature babies, Australia's statin research, Alzheimer's and genetic research

438

Health on Nauru, refusing cancer treatment, weight loss surgery and the advancing old-age front

439

Flushing out UTIs, surgery vs therapy for knee injuries, dysphonia and the death of John Deeble

440

Can my pacemaker be hacked?

441

The problem with nutritional research

442

What the healthcare industry can learn from aviation

443

Daily aspirin doesn't protect against heart attack or stroke in healthy older people

444

A genetic test that can predict your dementia risk

445

Undescended testicles linked to infertility, testicular cancer

446

Phantom odour perception: smelling things that aren't there

447

How can we make Australia's hospitals safer?

448

DNA tests, the Golden State Killer and your privacy

449

How to prevent late-onset epilepsy when you’re in your 40s

450

Omega-3 supplements don't protect against heart attack or stroke

451

Cancer and exercise: Improving treatment and outcomes

452

Health Report presents Science Friction: the trials and tribulations of experimental drug trials

453

Teens drinking may lead to alcohol problems later in life

454

Promising new vaccine for HIV trialled in humans

455

Fighting the good fight: eradicating polio is both political and personal

456

Two drinks a day: too risky?

457

Theranos: How a med-tech startup came crashing down

458

Rethinking what's best for low back pain

459

Presbyphonia: Dealing with an ageing voice

460

Out-of-pocket costs and the future of private health insurance

461

Is that a steroid in my supplement? (Part 2)

462

The doctor-hoppers: Who's seeing multiple GPs and why?

463

Is that a steroid in my supplement? (Part 1)

464

Should we measure the performance of our surgeons?

465

Unlocking the secrets of venom

466

Virus epidemic hits Australia for a third time

467

ACL injuries are on the rise in Aussie kids — what can we do about it?

468

Daytime sleepiness and Alzheimer's, best-practice care for children, intrauterine insemination and improving the diagnosis of mystery illnesses

469

The Spanish flu: Understanding a devastating pandemic

470

Unravelling the Glasgow effect

471

Crowdfunding medical care, MDMA for psychiatric disorders, Aboriginal preventive health and bugs and drugs

472

Bipolar treatments, babies born before arrival, calcium, vitamin D and polyps and the different types of diabetes

473

Self-serve nurse treats his own heart attack, prostate cancer treatments and screening, and what's best for lower back pain?

474

Tummy tucks, antidepressants, low carb v low fat and the mental health of the homeless

475

Folic acid and autism, unnecessary cannulas, early type 2 diabetes and cannabis chocolate

476

Fear of needles, the flu and heart attacks, and training junior doctors more effectively

477

The UK doctor struck off for her errors and the messages exercise sends to your body

478

Wind turbine syndrome, heart rate changes, hospital complications and chronic condition self-management

479

Do Not Resuscitate tattoos, the end of over-the-counter codeine, and psychosocial disability and the NDIS

480

Facial yoga, hormone therapy and chronic disease, tamper-resistant opioids, and no link between baby formula and diabetes

481

SIDS, sleep apnoea, and gonorrhoea

482

Childhood stress, depression and dementia

483

Hookworms, infected mozzies and the Daintree ulcer

484

Osteoarthritis

485

Talking sugar tax...

486

Fasting and fat cells, oral contraceptives, antibiotic surveys and macular degeneration research

487

Falls in older people, BMI and brain shrinkage, HPV screening and vaginal mesh

488

Fatty liver and shrinking brain volume, liver cancer treatments, macular degeneration and nudge theory

489

The nocebo effect, low-fat diets, palliative care and the vaginal microbiome

490

E-cigarettes, cancer treatments and an ex-naturopath

491

Robot surgeries, cancer symptom awareness and new lymphoma testing

492

Biosimilar drugs, colonoscopies and appendicitis, and staph in the community

493

Bone marrow transplants, heavy menstrual bleeding guidelines, birth positions and pre-pregnancy cancer screening

494

Food labelling, and when the doctor becomes the patient..

495

Atypical melanoma, The First Thousand Days, and childhood literacy..

496

Standard of care for cancer patients below par in clinical trials and busting myths about fat in your diet

497

Exposing cancer drug costs, a new way to boost organ donation and response to PCOS overdiagnosis claims

498

Hospital rehab not value for money, less is more for breast cancer treatment, mutation detection in patients with advanced cancer and rethinking how we do peer review

499

Perceptions of pain, reducing waste in medical research and increasing female participation in sport

500

Self-reported wheat sensitivity, improving safety of breast implants, business as usual for adolescents and antidepressants and is medicine ready for artificial intelligence?