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.
Conditions
‘I’m learning to drive again with no hands or feet’
When a bout of flu gave a Central Coast father the shakes, he laid down for a rest — when he “awoke” three weeks later it was to the worst news of his life.
They told me I didn’t have cancer, but a tumour sat there for months
One of two women who had their breast biopsies swapped in a shocking BreastScreen Queensland bungle has told of her devastation after being given a false all-clear.
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.
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Ozempic’s surprise health benefit not linked to weight loss
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Study shows breast cancer risk for some women on ‘the pill’
Certain women are at a greater risk of breast cancer the longer they use hormonal contraceptives like the pill, a new study has found.
Major Aussie breakthrough in breast cancer drugs
A young Aussie mother was told doctors “couldn’t find any evidence” of her triple negative breast cancer thanks to a new revolutionary and less aggressive treatment regimen.
‘If I had ignored it and it had spread any deeper, I wouldn’t be here today’
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