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Lithium linked to lower dementia risk, new hope for healthy aging, meth use and stroke risk and how unhealthy industries undermine public health

Tracking asthma mortality, occupations and risk of rheumatoid arthritis, re-defining polycystic ovary syndrome and unpacking salt

Private health insurance overhaul, privacy concerns over personal genomic testing and e-health for older Australians

Transforming Australia’s digital health services, the designer vagina, and the Affordable Dialysis Project

Better therapies, better outcomes? Improving physical health for those with mental health issues, and better blood pressure measurement

Success rates for IVF, dieting during pregnancy, lasers against heart attack and stroke, and the health economics of ageing

Treating sleep apnoea doesn't prevent heart attack or death, poor evidence for the efficacy of diet in children and adolescents, mouthwash might beat Gonorrhoea, and the role of serotonin in SIDS

Osteoarthritis

Can childhood stress lead to late life dementia? What about depression? Also - is strep throat linked to mental health issues in children?

Refining cancer risk, sitting up after stroke, BMI and Parkinson disease, and dissolving the extracellular matrix.

Dodgy dental implants, breastfeeding reduces cancer risk, cupping comes with a risk of burns, and is your super smoke free?

Red meat and your health, weight gain in pregnancy, and getting medical students to think rural

Live from Cairns

Run! If you want to live longer..

Oxytocin and autism, and temperature and glucose tolerance..

Temperature influences risk of gestational diabetes, and drilling down into a dementia precursor..

Better blood transfusions, and bystander benefits for CPR..

Multivitamins and cardiovascular disease, vascular risk and brain gunk, and choosing your hospital with data..

Running for your back, but not vitamin D for your heart..

On allergies

Talking sugar tax..

Drug shortages, and a barbaric biopsy..

Flu season, pregabalin for sciatica, ketamine for depression, and first new epilepsy classification in 28 years

Is brain training worth it? And a liquid biopsy for blood cancer

Testosterone, bypass surgery, fish oil, and medicinal marijuana

International Women's Day special

Fishy fish oil, managing blood pressure, and better practice for cancer and diabetes..

Fake silk, treating cancer, and overcoming poverty..

GP crisis, predicting asthma, new lung genes, sleep and sport

Cancer challenges, bowel cancer pill, back pain meds fail, asthma myth busted

Trump backlash in medicine, meningococcal W, dense breasts and cancer, peak athletic performance safety.

Insomnia, anti-inflammatory safety, assessing heart disease risk, cheaper breast cancer drugs

A stillborn inequity

Blood

Sex, Sugar Daddies, & HIV: legacy of AIDS for African girls today

Witness the fitness

Chiropractic controversies

Optimism and living longer, what a quality diet means, harmful drug treatment for delirium, the cost of poor mental health.

Thunderstorm asthma, dangerous statin drug interaction, reducing preterm births, IVF calculator.

Brown fat, testing the obesity paradox, and baseball's elbow surgery epidemic

Drug deaths in health workers, reassessing vitamin D, anaesthesia and children, after-effects of breast cancer

Busting the cranberry myth for UTIs, re-embracing methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis, turning to hookworms to treat asthma, and eliminating anti-psychotics in the treatment of dementia.

The distraction of big ideas, brain drain, a new test for pre-eclampsia, and transmission of HIV and the law

Lyme disease and sleep

Best practice in breast cancer, making blood, flying blind, and diabetes linked to heart failure

Cervical cancer screening, hospital safety and quality assurance, and best practice in treating depression.

Can your brain heal your body? (REPEAT)

Future of hospital robots and tiny machines inside us, gluten-free standards, and a diet for the 'miracle hormone'

Wearable technology, cost of robotic surgery, ATSI health check, and is back cement back?

Vitamin D reducing asthma, cervical treatments risk preterm birth, autopsies for research, and nurses wined and dined

Caring for the parents of stillborn babies

Asthma treatment, blood pressure, cancer reporting, and learning difficulties

Breathing machine makes life with sleep apnoea easier, but probably doesn't prevent cardiovascular events.

Blood

Eating, sitting, bellyache, and pain

AIDS2016

The Health Report at Sydney Writers Festival 2016

Hotspots of health inequality, and the best for busted knees

Ubiquitous proteins, empty noses

Real fake illness

Allergies

Dipping into drug development

A close look at chiropractic work

Breaking BRCA

Are we over-diagnosing breast cancer?

Medicinal marijuana, counterintuitive confectionary

Autoimmune psychiatry and death over (and in spite of) dinner

Feeding for the start and end of life

A popular class of medication associated with cognitive decline, getting to know your gut bugs, and vaccinating against heart attack and stroke

Fresh benefits for interval training, a nutrient boost for antidepressants, and busting a fasting fallacy

Gaming consoles monitoring respiratory health, stress and mobile health

Better staging tests for prostate cancer, human (malaria) guinea pigs, mislabelled allergies

Surgeons and Medibank collaborating, the rising cost of insulin, and tick saliva's role in treating rare diseases

Every step you take

A betrayal of trust, or just bad luck?

A better death, and minimally disruptive medicine

Brown fat, testing the obesity paradox, and baseball's elbow surgery epidemic

Preventing peanut allergies, problems with health professional regulation, and taxing sugary drinks

Chlamydia testing, a rare skin cancer, and genomic medicine

Testosterone, reflux and dementia, high fat low carb diets in diabetic mice, and curing Hep C

Salmonella, broken waters, Mercury or Omega 3, and vaginal prolapse

Is Zika responsible for Brazil's microcephaly outbreak? And detecting deafness in newborns.

Zika Virus, Lower Back Pain, and Scabies

Vitamin D tests, mystery illnesses and back pain

Training your brain for better health

Which gender has more heart attacks?

Will this medication harm me?

Do you drink and dose?

The health risks of using cannabis

Can your brain heal your body?

Maybe we do need that appendix after all

Which way to best health care?

I feel better so why can't I stop my medication?

Is fish oil any better than snake oil?

The stressful workplace

Does one piece of bacon really equal one cigarette?

October 26th

Aiming for high-value healthcare

Can we bottle the benefits of exercise?

5 October 2015