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Researchers have found your morning coffee is beneficial to your health, if you make it the right way.

Is that coffee good for you? It depends on how you make it

New research shows up to three cups of coffee a day can lower your risk of cardiovascular disease, but it depends on the method used to make it.

  • Miranda Levy

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Dietician Michelle Theodosi (with her daughter Mila) needed an iron infusion during her first pregnancy.

Why iron deficiency is ‘notoriously underdiagnosed’ in women

Fatigue, low mood and even muscle weakness are widely considered to be a part of being a woman. But low iron levels can cause all these symptoms and more – and it is easily treated.

  • Paula Goodyer

In a medical crisis, who will speak for you? Here’s how people plan ahead

It can happen in instant. When you can’t make decisions about your own medical treatment, who steps into your shoes? And how do doctors know what you want (and don’t want)?

  • Nick Newling and Felicity Lewis
Victoria’s local public health units opened during the pandemic.

‘People are going to die’: Funding doubt over state’s frontline public health defence

The Victorian government refuses to guarantee the future of local public health units that were crucial to the state’s pandemic fight, igniting concerns about more budget cuts to an already stretched health service.

  • Chip Le Grand, Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody
Composite image of the Massa family and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park.

‘Would Joe be alive?’ Family demands answers after scathing audit

The Minns government says it is committed to ending its agreement with private operator Healthscope despite rejecting two offers to take the hospital into public hands.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
Talc used to be in practically every make-up product, but now it’s increasingly being replaced by ingredients like cornstarch and silica.

What’s the problem with talc? Why beauty brands are dropping this common ingredient

As regulators worldwide raise concerns about this once-popular ingredient, talc alternatives have taken their place. But they don’t all look, feel or cost the same.

  • Nell Geraets
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Donald Trump.

Vital stats to lab results and medications: Read Donald Trump’s full medical report

The oldest man to be elected president of the United States has, according to his doctor’s notes, a health record to incite envy.

  • Bronte Gossling
Donald Trump plays during the pro-am round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster.

‘Overweight’ Trump has sun damage after ‘frequent golf wins’, medical report finds

The results of the newly released report of the US president’s health check also list his medications, cataract surgery and cognitive score.

  • Darlene Superville
US President Donald Trump talks to reporters on board Air Force One.

Trump undergoes physical and cognitive exams, says he has ‘a very good soul’

The soon-to-be 79-year-old, who is a fan of pizza, KFC and Big Macs, spent several hours being poked and prodded by the doctors at Walter Reed Medical Centre.

  • Jeff Mason, Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal
Beds were removed from Blacktown Hospital on Thursday amid the doctors’ strike.

In Sydney’s EDs, they took away the beds. But the patients kept coming

Thousands of doctors have returned to work, but their anger with the NSW government has not gone away. Here’s what happens next.

  • Angus Thomson

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