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Birth Trauma Awareness Week: Thousands of women call for changes to Australian system – ABC listen

A world-first inquiry in NSW has now received more than four thousand submissions from women who have experienced significant trauma during birth.After widespread consultation,...

Evening Exercise Boosts Sleep, Otago Study Finds

Rigorous exercise before bed has long been discouraged, but University of Otago researchers have found short bursts of light activity can lead to better...

Bird Flu closes in on Australia

Australia’s chooks could be at risk from highly infectious strains of bird flu circulating the country. Three separate H7 strains of avian influenza have been...

Bird Flu Not Spreading in Humans, Vaccines in Pipeline

Since May, a number of poultry farms around Australia have faced outbreaks of avian influenza, or bird flu. These outbreaks have been devastating for...

Bird flu isn’t spreading in humans for now. But there are vaccines in the pipeline if that changes

Since May, a number of poultry farms around Australia have faced outbreaks of avian influenza, or bird flu. These outbreaks...

Many Breast Cancer Survivors Miss Genetic Testing

ANN ARBOR, Michigan — As cancer treatment and survivorship care relies more on understanding the genetic make-up of an individual's tumor, a new study...

Free whooping cough vaccine would protect more Queenslanders

AMA Queensland has written to Health Minister Shannon Fentiman and Chief Health Officer Dr John Gerrard, calling for the whooping cough vaccination to be...

Supplements Slow Late-Stage Dry Macular Degeneration

In a new analysis of data, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that taking a daily supplement containing antioxidant vitamins...

Immune Adverse Events from Immunotherapy: Key Patterns

Yevgeniy Semenov, MD, MA, a physician-investigator in the Mass General Department of Dermatology and an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, and...

New approaches for repairing the function of mutated proteins that cause stroke

Cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CARASIL) is a...

Research: Siblings of Autistic Kids Face 20% Autism Risk

Siblings of autistic children have a 20% chance of being autistic themselves — about seven times higher than the rate in infants with no...

3,000+ Health Orgs Honored for Top Cardiovascular Care

Someone in the United States dies of cardiovascular disease (CVD) every 34 seconds, on average. Reducing deaths from CVD requires a coordinated approach to...

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