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Medical trial aims to beat 'widow maker' heart attacks

Medical trial aims to beat 'widow maker' heart attacks

While heart attack risks like high blood pressure and cholesterol are important to address, researchers are developing a test for other silent factors.

'Incredible human' goes from critical to comic relief

'Incredible human' goes from critical to comic relief

'Incredible human' goes from critical to comic relief

'Incredible human' goes from critical to comic relief

After 427 hospital visits, a leg amputation and three turns on the "wheel of death", a man is giving back to the hospital he credits with his unlikely recovery.

Pope to leave hospital after lung cancer surgery

Pope to leave hospital after lung cancer surgery

Pope to leave hospital after lung cancer surgery

Pope to leave hospital after lung cancer surgery

Pope Leo is set to deliver a traditional Sunday blessing after being released from hospital following lung surgery to remove a cancerous nodule.

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Russia denies second case linked to Siberian plague lab

Russia denies second case linked to Siberian plague lab

Russia's ‌health regulator has rejected reports that ‌a second person fell ill following the death ‌of ‌a ⁠worker at a plague research laboratory in Siberia.

'It's always there': high cost of chronic pain on kids

'It's always there': high cost of chronic pain on kids

Kids with chronic pain conditions are struggling to have their symptoms taken seriously, a study has found, despite impacting most aspects of their lives.

Speaking up for lives harmed by alcohol in the womb

Speaking up for lives harmed by alcohol in the womb

A national campaign is seeking to destigmatise and raise awareness of a physical and neurodevelopmental condition caused by prenatal alcohol exposure.

Epilepsy 'pushed under' with years-long treatment wait

Epilepsy 'pushed under' with years-long treatment wait

One of Australia's most common brain disorders receives far too little attention with some patients waiting years to be seen by a specialist, advocates warn.

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Albanese leaves door open to cutting tobacco excise

Albanese leaves door open to cutting tobacco excise

Albanese leaves door open to cutting tobacco excise

Albanese leaves door open to cutting tobacco excise

Labor's leader is now declining to guarantee the government won't cut the levy, as One Nation says keeping it unchanged will funnel money to the "mafia".

Teen jailed over deadly crash, 'cowardly' bashing

Teen jailed over deadly crash, 'cowardly' bashing

Teen jailed over deadly crash, 'cowardly' bashing

Teen jailed over deadly crash, 'cowardly' bashing

A teenager has been lambasted for cowardly and inhumane behaviour as he was jailed for killing his friend and maiming another months earlier.

'Enormous' mental health toll for women with endo

'Enormous' mental health toll for women with endo

'Enormous' mental health toll for women with endo

'Enormous' mental health toll for women with endo

More than half of Australian women with endometriosis are experiencing a mental health problem, with new research revealing the hidden toll of the condition.

At least 2000 people killed in Congo's Ebola outbreak

At least 2000 people killed in Congo's Ebola outbreak

At least 2000 people killed in Congo's Ebola outbreak

At least 2000 people killed in Congo's Ebola outbreak

Congo's has recorded 2011 deaths among confirmed Ebola cases as authorities struggle to slow the fastest-growing outbreak on record.

Congo's Ebola outbreak surpasses 4000 cases

Congo's Ebola outbreak surpasses 4000 cases

Congo's Ebola outbreak surpasses 4000 cases

Congo's Ebola outbreak surpasses 4000 cases

Ebola cases have hit a grim milestone as Congo authorities struggle to keep pace with the fastest-spreading outbreak of the virus ever recorded.

Teen's brain injury plea for judge after fatal crash

Teen's brain injury plea for judge after fatal crash

Teen's brain injury plea for judge after fatal crash

Teen's brain injury plea for judge after fatal crash

A teen driver who caused a car accident that killed his friend and violently assaulted another man has asked a judge to consider his brain injury in sentencing.

Archie winner's dementia 'love story' tours nationally

Archie winner's dementia 'love story' tours nationally

Archie winner's dementia 'love story' tours nationally

Archie winner's dementia 'love story' tours nationally

Archibald prize winner Richard Lewer's landmark project Steve tells the story of a family's struggle to come to terms with a dementia diagnosis.

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Jeremy Clarkson reveals prostate cancer diagnosis

Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson shares in his series Clarkson’s Farm that he's been diagnosed with an aggressive form of ‌prostate cancer.

Funding mission aims to offers hope for arthritis cure

A multimillion-dollar research centre to combat arthritis is being heralded as a massive boost for the huge number of Australians who suffer from the disease.

Ebola deaths rise to 100 as conflict slows response

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak that began in eastern Congo has hit 100, as protests and armed conflict continue to hinder efforts to stop the outbreak.

Heart tech keeps wanderlust alive no matter where, when

At nearly 80 and suffering from cardiomyopathy, John Howell can only embrace his wanderlust for travel because of a tiny device in his chest keeping him alive.

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Deadly protest in Kenya against Ebola quarantine centre

Kenya's president has defended a planned US Ebola quarantine centre that's been delayed by a court and faced angry protests that left two people dead.

Uganda confirms new Ebola cases as tracing steps up

Uganda's Ebola cases have risen to five, as authorities warn the risk of a epidemic is "very high" in neighbouring Congo, where the outbreak began.

Protesters set fire to Ebola tents in dispute over body

Tents have been burned to the ground at an Ebola treatment centre in eastern Congo as people rioted after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man.

Ebola toll to grow after virus quietly spread for weeks

Scores of people have died from Africa's Ebola outbreak and that number is expected to keep rising given how long the virus was able to circulate undetected.

More harmed than harmful: the truth about schizophrenia

Dr James McLure works on developing treatment for schizophrenia. Having spent years battling his own psychosis, it's a disease he has particular insight into.

Dutch hospital isolates 12 over virus protocol breach

The number of Andean hantavirus cases from a cruise ship has risen to nine, while a Dutch hospital has put a dozen staff in quarantine as a precaution.

New name ends confusion over disorder affecting women

A global effort led by an Australian university has changed the name of a women’s health condition that was wrongly believed to be all about ovarian cysts.

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