The dentist visit that shattered a family’s world
After months of toothaches and mouth pain, this married father-of-two was referred by his dentist to an oral specialist – what came next was a “traumatic” discovery.
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Royal family turn to Australians for answers on killer genetic disease
This cruel disease claimed the life of a much-loved royal prince. Now, Australians are helping find answers.
Cancer took my husband, now I’m fighting for my life against it
When this mother was dealt the heartbreaking diagnosis of stage four breast cancer, she thought she’d always have her husband by her side to help her fight.
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I see a lot of patients wrongly diagnosed with IBS
It breaks my heart seeing patients when they come to me with this problem and they have been suffering for years.
I thought my brain fog was due to stress – but it was dementia
Jim Rogers thought his brain fog and absent-mindedness was due to stress or a side effect of cholesterol medication. Then he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at just 55.
‘I’m learning to drive again with no hands or feet’
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They told me I didn’t have cancer, but a tumour sat there for months
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New way to treat disease growing at faster rate than Alzheimer’s
A major discovery has been made that will create a new way to treat this neurodegenerative disease which has seen the highest increase in cases globally.
Doing this 3 times a week helps sex issues after prostate cancer
Men can improve their sex lives after prostate cancer if they do this amount of exercise each week, it’s now been found.
I thought I had a headache – but my brain and spine were leaking
This retired nurse thought she just had a nasty headache, but in reality, fluid was leaking from her brain and spine. This is what doctors did next.
Aussie lives with titanium heart in historic breakthrough
A man spent a record 105 days with a titanium heart in an Aussie breakthrough that could change the future of organ transplants.
I was fatigued, bloated and in pain – how I discovered I had IBD
For more than a decade, Michelle Hobson endured extreme fatigue, excruciating abdominal pain, and repeated hospital visits. Finally getting answers helped her.
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