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Is honey good for you? Can it speed recovery if you’re sick or injured?

Honey is often praised for a range of health benefits, from soothing a sore throat and helping you get to sleep to healing woulds and lowering risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.

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Does coffee raise your blood pressure? Here’s how much it’s OK to drink

Coffee first entered human lives and veins over 600 years ago.

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Not all processed foods are bad for you. Here’s what you can tell from reading the label

If you follow wellness content on social media or in the news, you’ve probably heard that processed food is not just unhealthy, but can cause serious harm.

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What is a blood cholesterol ratio? And what should yours be?

Have you had a blood test to check your cholesterol level? These check the different blood fat components:

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Sick of eating the same things? 5 ways to boost your nutrition and keep meals interesting and healthy

Did you start 2025 with a promise to eat better but didn’t quite get there? Or maybe you want to branch out from making the same meal every week or the same lunch for work almost every day?

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'Challenges and changes': HMRI jobs to go amid state funding cuts

CEO commits to 'supporting staff during this difficult time'.

Newcastle Herald

In the lab and beyond: Hunter medical research in action

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'I never felt safer at such a scary time': miracles from clinical trials

Stillbirths and strokes, HMRI helps the Hunter through the worst.

Newcastle Herald

Would you want to live to 150? Hunter experts battle it out

'Wake me up in 2124.'

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Art meets science with works inspired by trauma and injury research

HMRI's online auction opens from October 28.

Newcastle Herald

'Commitment to the Hunter': the Perm backs HMRI with $2 million donation

Positive social change on agenda of new Hunter partnership.

Newcastle Herald

Novocastrians really want to be real estate agents: study

It was the city's most searched career path.

Newcastle Herald

What is ‘health at every size’ lifestyle counselling? How does it compare with weight-focused treatments?

Health at every size (or HAES) is a lifestyle counselling approach that promotes mindful eating and lifestyle behaviours to pursue health and wellness, without focusing on weight loss. Weight loss is seen as a beneficial side effect, rather than a goal.

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Should school nurses weigh students? We asked 5 experts

One in four Australian children aged two to 17 are classified as above a healthy weight, based on their body mass index (or BMI, which is weight divided by height squared).

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How empathy fuels the Hunter's top medical innovators

Medical research draws people from all walks of life.

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5 foods to add to your shopping list to save money – and they’re good for you too

Food prices are adding pressure on household budgets, especially for Australians on the lowest incomes.

Newcastle Herald

'Deadly' program at HMRI to help improve life for First Nations people

Research program to address 'historical mistrust' and stress.

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Animals in medical research on agenda, after inquiry exposed 'cruelty'

Animal research gains 'far reaching', but alternatives on agenda.

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Tomago brings in new CEO to oversee aluminium smelter's green future

Tomago Aluminium is the state's largest power user.

Newcastle Herald

Through the lens: our top photos from the past week

Take a look at some of our best photographs from the past week.

Newcastle Herald

'People could go years without knowing': the silent bomb that could be you

'I checked it again later at the hospital. It was still up.'

Newcastle Herald

'It has to be snappy': HMRI mind tool to track mental health in a minute

Project to pinpoint hotspots in need of mental health resources.

Newcastle Herald

Budget surplus boasting 'unconscionable' in cost of living crisis

Hunter groups say the surplus is nothing to praise.

Newcastle Herald

'Research romance': Winter is coming, possibly in time for Mother's Day

'I had to get my husband to hide the chocolate from me.'

Newcastle Herald

Asthma drugs that help afflicted patients go back to 'being a person'

'We never thought it was possible,' Newcastle professor says.

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