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We arrive into the world with a mixture of DNA from our parents. We may have inherited mum’s dark hair or dad’s fiery temper, but ourgenetic heritage – and what happens to it during our life – could also be the key to avoiding deadly diseases such as cancer and ...

You wake up one morning, feeling perfectly fine. You start your day, hop into the shower and get a shock – you’ve found a lump in your breast. So what should you do? Firstly, don’t panic, says Dr Julie Thompson, resident clinical advisor at the Breast Cancer Network Australia. “Nine ...

Every person diagnosed with breast cancer should become the central focus of a team of medical and allied health experts who meet regularly to discuss the best plan for them – on this point breast cancer experts agree. So why isn’t this happening? This collaborative approach to breast cancer care ...

It’s a little-known fact that more Australian women will be affected by an eating disorder than breast cancer in their lifetime: 11 per cent will getbreast cancer while 15 per cent of women are estimated to be faced with an eating disorder (which includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosaand binge eating). ...

When was the last time you went for 24 hours without looking at a computer, tablet or smartphone? For most of us, it takes an overseas holiday or complete lack of mobile reception to prize the phone from our hands. But all that screen time is not particularly good for ...

Yes A review of studies carried out by researchers at the University of Toronto, and published in Gender Medicine magazine, says the link between negative moods and menstrual cycles is tenuous at best. The largely female team, led by New Zealander Dr Sarah Romans, examined 47 studies from between 1971 ...

We all have a fairly good idea of how to live a healthy life. But every now and then even the most pious will stray from the good-health path. As the experts say, there is no point harbouring regrets – instead, use the following advice to help yourself recover from ...

Scientists do, and their findings may change the way you feel about taking the plunge. Human waste, it seems, can be resistant to being neutralised by pool sanitation chemicals like chlorine. The US centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected water samples from 161 filters in public and private swimming ...

Imagine if your mobile phone could warn you of an impending heart attack or send out an alert to a passerby. Or if your iPad could connect you to a specialist who could diagnose depression by looking at your facial expressions. You may not need to use your imagination for ...

US researchers have developed a new screening strategy for ovarian cancer that can potentially detect the disease before it becomes fatal. There is currently no reliable early detection test or screening program for ovarian cancer so this breakthrough has the potential to save thousands of lives. Using results from an ongoing clinical ...