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Victoria’s health minister defends colleague who suggested Kylie Hennessy, who has a brain tumour, ‘roll with the punches’

For over a century, scientists have painstakingly worked to find the ultimate causes of cancers, hoping this could point to a cure for the disease. Many disparate agents are known to be associated with cancers: cigarette smoke, soot, asbestos, radiation, alcohol, chemicals, and others. But exactly how they lead to…

Kylie Hennessy, a 50-year-old mother of two, says she made a round trip of 1,600 kilometres to Adelaide for a brain scan after facing a months-long wait in Melbourne.

The infection can cause miscarriages and can be fatal to vulnerable people

A doctor in Michigan was last week fined US$775,000 for ordering surgeries that were unnecessary. In one case, he removed a woman’s uterus, cervix and both ovaries because of a threat of cancer, even though no cancer was present. 

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While hysterectomy surgery has seen a drop in developed economies, it persists in the global South reflecting a racist, sexist, and prejudicial legacy.

Stem cells are the starting point for all other cells in our bodies. The first such cells to be found were blood stem cells – as the name suggests, they give rise to different types of blood cells.

This woman took matters into her own hands when told she would have to wait nine months for a scan on a lump in her breast

“It’s a simple step that could literally, and I mean literally, save your life,” Reynolds says

Olivia Hughes-Smith has been diagnosed with leukaemia after suffering a pain in her leg