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8 August: Cervical cancer screening | Miscarriage and stroke risk | BCG vaccine and kids | Shingles update
An option for cervical cancer screening could be a game-changer and miscarriages or stillbirths may bring an increased risk of stroke
4 years ago
1 August: Ventilation | Vitamin D | Shingles
With COVID there are more protective measures to take—and there's a historical parallel | The results of a trial of vitamin D supplementation find no…
4 years ago
25 July: Health services in the final year of life; clarity for legal wording on voluntary assisted dying; social inequity and heart attack; climate and mental health
The amount of money to spend on health care in the last year of someone's life is debatable. | The vital eligibility criterion for voluntary assisted…
4 years ago
18 July: Living with COVID ain't rosy; Why vax boosters are necessary; Exercise won't fix poor diet
Some immunologists are concerned that COVID-19 is not travelling as expected. An internationally respected immunologist had four doses of COVID vacci…
4 years ago
11 July: Tackling obesity | Standards on how to handle sepsis | The right amount of Vitamin D
In 2009 Australia launched a National Preventive Health Strategy with the aim of being the healthiest country in the world by 2020—where we're at wit…
4 years, 1 month ago
4 July: Coming to terms with long COVID; Vaxes for variants; An artificial pancreas; Protecting pandemic teens
Australia has many stories from people who say they have long COVID but who are unable to access help | Updated versions of coronavirus vaccines targ…
4 years, 1 month ago
Speculating on an Australian Centre of Disease Control and Prevention; How Indigenous culture can protect the heart; Associations between mental health and mortality
What an Australian Centre for Disease Control might aim to be; An Indigenous perspective and research to engage culture for protection against cardio…
4 years, 1 month ago
Breast density and MRIs, diet and mental health, genomics and osteoarthritis
There may be a link between what you eat and your mental health—also, avoiding overtreatment for breast cancer; predicting your risk of osteoarthriti…
4 years, 1 month ago
The cancer risks that run through generations
The cancer risks that run through generations of families—and the growing frontier in medicine trying to change that.
4 years, 2 months ago
Cancer treatment and 'time toxicity'; youth mental health and smoking; a paradox for cholesterol levels
The term 'time toxicity' expresses the idea that if treatment to extend a patient's life means lengthy periods in medical facilities, it may be time …
4 years, 2 months ago