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• Misinformation blamed as Australian vaccine rates slide 01-12-2025

  Misinformation, anti-science sentiment and vaccine hesitancy is being blamed for a "worrying" drop in Australia's immunisation rates. The Australian Medical Association is urging Australians to reverse the trend, warning lives are un

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• More care for utes than health: rural men's harsh truth 30-11-2025

  Tanvir Kapoor thinks some young men in rural areas take better care of their utes than their bodies. "There is a perception about toughing it out, or 'she'll be right'," the Royal Flying Doctor Service general practitioner to

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• How one 'widowmaker' survivor is helping heart science 30-11-2025

  Warren Williams had no warning his heart was about to stop. A champion masters runner revered for his fitness, the then-59-year-old was powering up a hill he tackled every week in Sydney's eastern suburbs when he suddenly collapsed.[subscribe]

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• Embryo bungle earns IVF giant new licence conditions 28-11-2025

  Licence conditions have been placed on an IVF giant's clinics in one state following bungles that sparked nationwide debate. A patient at a Monash IVF laboratory in Melbourne's southeast was implanted with her own embryo on June 5 rather t

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• 'Dread so deep': new parents struggle, don't seek help 28-11-2025

  Year after year they fell pregnant and year after year they saw their babies' "little heartbeats". And year after year, Sydney couple Marcelle and Steve Cooper lost their much-longed-for children at around the same 12-week mark.[subs

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• Australia steps up to help tackle Pacific HIV epidemic 27-11-2025

  Australia is stepping up to fill in aid gaps as the world's fastest-growing HIV epidemic threatens to overwhelm health systems across the Pacific. The federal government has announced a six-year $48 million program to support Pacific neighbour

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• 'Invisible' cancer patients finally brought into focus 27-11-2025

  The number of Australians living with incurable breast cancer is almost double what has been previously estimated, with thousands of mostly female patients invisible to health authorities. Metastatic breast cancer develops when the cancer spreads

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• Cancer researcher honoured as pioneer for women in STEM 26-11-2025

  A melanoma researcher and oncologist has won the inaugural young women in science prize for her groundbreaking contributions to cancer treatment and care. Melanoma Institute Australia medical oncologist Ines Esteves Domingues Pires da Silva receiv

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• People with ADHD to save thousands as GPs gain skills 26-11-2025

  Families with ADHD could save thousands of dollars a year as GPs are given more powers to treat the condition. A growing number of GPs can help continue prescriptions for ADHD patients over the age of six in NSW after the state government passed r

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• Deadly flu found on Australian sub-Antarctic island 26-11-2025

  A deadly strain of bird flu has been detected on a sub-Antarctic island for the first time, but the government says the risks to Australia have not substantially increased. Scientists in October raised the alarm after observing an unusual amount o

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