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A new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) could change the lives of a quarter of a million Australians affected by the debilitating disease. Currently being trialled in the UK, the new therapy uses a patient’s own immune system to fight RA. It consists of a single low-cost injection made from the ...

Bubbles, as we all know, work a treat in champagne, baths and chewing gum, and now they’re being used to potentially save lives worldwide via fascinating and revolutionary medical research. Minute bubbles – smaller in width than a human hair – are being tested in laboratories across the globe to ...

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At first sight, Bailey seems like a typical 10-year-old boy. He’s energetic and lively; his love of basketball regularly sees him shooting hoops in the street with the neighbourhood kids after school. But first impressions can be deceiving. Bailey has cerebral palsy, a disorder that affects muscle and bone development ...

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 ...

How often do you take holidays? Not often enough it seems. A 2012 Roy Morgan study found that Aussies have 128 days of annual leave accrued – that equates to 350 000 years of holidays! It also found that 1 in 4 of full time employees are leave stockpilers. So ...

Survival rates for breast cancer sufferers have never been better and scientists are optimistic of continuing medical breakthroughs in regard to treatment and understanding. But the rates of diagnosis continue to rise and the unavoidable truth is there’s still no cure. Each day, about 40 women are diagnosed with breast ...

New research has shown that only 11 per cent of teenagers and young adults are smoking, which is a 4 percent drop from two years ago and the lowest rate it has even been. A study by the Cancer Institute of New South Wales tracked more than 6,000 young people ...

1. You make green smoothies for breakfast, because you know they are full of nutritional goodness and fibre. 2. You love strolling through health food stores to see what newsuperfoods or raw bars you haven’t tried yet. 3. Your favourite thing to do on the weekend is go to your ...

If you watched Todd Sampson’s 3-part documentary Redesign My Brain and thought you’d like to get in on the action yourself you’re not alone. So we thought why not go to the source directly? Dr Michael Merzenich, the scientist who helped Todd Sampson redesign his brain in the show and ...