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Liver Cancer Crisis Can Be Reversed, Says NSW Cancer Council

Over the past 20 years, death rates from all cancers combined in Australia have decreased by around 25%, thanks to improvements in prevention, early...

Bowel cancer screening from 45 starts today – 2EC

More residents on the Far South Coast of NSW will be able to participate in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program with the starting...

First targeted treatment for lupus listed on the PBS – News Hub

Australians with lupus can access a...

Mobile command centres sent to bird flu outbreak – bay 93.9

Two mobile incident command centres have been sent to Meredith to help fight the currently bird flu outbreak. Seven farms within the Golden Plains Shire...

Bowel Cancer Screenings Begin Today for Those 45+

Australians aged 45-49 can now opt-in to the NBCSPBowel cancer screening age lowered from 50 to 45.Since 2018, Bowel Cancer Australia has advocated for...

What does Australia’s Health Star Rating system mean?

Star symbols are common on supermarket food products, from 0.5 to five full stars. What do they really mean? And how much should you...

What does Australia’s Health Star Rating system mean?

Star symbols are common on supermarket food products, from 0.5 to five full stars. What do they really mean? And how much should you...

Study suggests connection between anxiety and Parkinson’s disease

People over 50 with anxiety may be up to twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as their peers without anxiety, a new analysis...

The survival benefit of deceased donor kidney transplantation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, 2006–20: a retrospective national cohort study

The known: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are disproportionately affected by kidney failure but are less likely than non‐Indigenous Australians to be waitlisted...

Walking just three times a week can help prevent lower back pain, new study finds

If you have lower back pain, you're likely all too familiar with the 'exercise as medicine' approach many doctors take. From expensive Pilates classes...

How are Covid-19 vaccines holding up against new variants?

Immunisation Advisory Centre medical adviser Dr Edwin Reynolds described the constantly mutating virus as a “moving target”.With each new variant - like JN.1, and...

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