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Alanah Frost
Alanah FrostMedical reporter

Alanah Frost is a medical and general news reporter at the Herald Sun. She was formerly a Cadet journalist at the paper.

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Brave 5 year old Miller Reid (beige top) with his brother Mason (7) (strip top) and Elliott (2). Miller is learning how to be a kid again after being diagnosed with a rare spinal cancer and undergoing urgent surgery which left him unable to walk. But the boy from Tyabb, on the Mornington Peninsula, isn't letting anything stop him and has in just two short months, already learnt how to walk again. Miller,5, was diaganosed with diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumour in July - an ultra rare cancer of which there are less than 30 cases in the world.  Picture: Tony Gough

Each small step a giant leap for little Miller

While recovery is a long road, five-year-old Miller is making giant strides. Left unable to walk following surgery to remove a rare spinal tumour, the determined youngster was back on his feet within two months.

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Baby foods are hiding nasty sugars and misleading parents who think theyÕre healthy, a new study has found. Research by the Cancer Council Victoria has found baby foods are using packaging and health-focused names to push products that are full of processed sugars and fruit concentrates. This includes popular puree and custard products marketed as good for infants and young children. Ashleigh Brazill and wife Brooke made the conscious decision to only feed 8 month old Louis fresh food that they would eat - not from the baby aisle.  Picture: Alex Coppel.

Unhealthy truth behind popular baby food

Top baby foods marketed as healthy for infants are misleading parents, according to a new study — with a main ingredient putting babies and young children at risk of tooth decay and sugar addiction.

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Video blurred by Channel 9 - Video at AdventCare Whitehorse in Nunawading, shows staff dressed in traditional clothing and dancing for residents at the facility. , They can be seen holding hands and cheering without wearing face masks or social distancing. Source: screen grabs channel 9

Premier slams aged care staff’s unmasked dancing

Daniel Andrews has condemned an aged care home’s decision to ignore health directives and allow staff to dance for residents without any appropriate PPE or masks, pointing out the sector is still “high risk” despite falling infection figures.

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A long line of headlights with traffic from the coronavirus Little River checkpoint banked up almost to Werribee on Friday morning. Picture: Twitter/@tpwkelly

Rulebreaking households cause Casey virus spike

People infected with coronavirus visiting other homes are believed to be behind a new cluster in Melbourne’s south-east, while Dan Andrews’ ring of steel is causing traffic delays stretching for kilometres at checkpoints out of the city. Forty-five new COVID cases and five deaths were confirmed on Friday.

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