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Robyn Riley is the medical editor for the Herald Sun. She is an award-winning journalist and an author who has been covering the medical and health round for more than three decades, with a particular interest in research. Join the Herald Sun’s Health & Medical Facebook group to be the first to hear about the medical breakthroughs you need to know about at www.facebook.com/groups/heraldsunhealth

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Victoria

Generic photo - a man about to undergo an MRI scan for prostate cancer. Picture: iStock

Victorian-made tool set to reshape treatment of kidney cancer

Thousands of Aussies are set to benefit from a new “highly accurate” tool that could redefine kidney cancer diagnosis and treatment following successful Victorian trials.

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Doherty Clinical Trials’ chief medical officer Professor James McCarthy is leading the study., , The Australian-developed technology is a tiny skin patch that delivers the vaccine to the immune cells below the skin surface.,

Afraid of needles? Jab-free vaxes could soon become reality

An Australian invention that delivers vaccines without a jab is ready for clinical trials. This is how you can help.

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Festival goers get into the spirit of things at Soundwave 2013 at the RNA showgrounds in Brisbane. Photo Marc Stapelberg / The Northern Star

Drug users in the dark about what they’re taking at music festivals

As drug testing gets set to be rolled out at 10 music festivals across Victoria, an alarming study has exposed that drug takers don’t really know what they’re taking.

Opinion

Australia's golden girl of the pool, Alexa Leary, wins the Paris Paralympic 100m S9 100m freestyle in a world record time at the La Defense Arena watched by her family and friends. Photo: Jacquelin Magnay

Opinion: Paralympian Alexa Leary is much-needed dose of sunshine

After a grim week of bad news, this golden girl brought us some much-needed sunshine. We all need an Alexa Leary in our lives.

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TAILEM BEND, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 20: Thomas Randle driver of the #55 Castrol Racing Ford Mustang GT during the OTR SuperSprint, part of the 2023 Supercars Championship Series at The Bend Motorsport Park on August 20, 2023 in Tailem Bend, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images)

Young Supercars champion says cancer fight drives him forward

On the eve of Bathurst 1000, supercars driver Thomas Randle says he was “very fortunate” to beat testicular cancer. Now his mission is to keep moving forward while also giving back.

Victoria

The west is celebrating a baby boom - with August 2024 the busiest month ever for the Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital in Sunshine. More than 625 babies born in August. Midwife Olivia Kivlighon gets a baby bonus with the latest batch of new born babies Tofiq, (TBA baby name), Itzia, Bailey, Mohamed and Ross. Picture: David Caird

Summer lovin’ delivers Melbourne’s west a baby boom

Melbourne’s western suburbs are the city’s most fertile with a record number of babies — close to 700 — delivered in August alone.

Victoria

A Liquid Nitrogen bank containing suspension of stem cells. Cell culture for the biomedical diagnostic

Lab-grown stem cells revolutionise bone marrow transplants for kids

Children with leukaemia and other blood diseases could soon find a “perfect match” for a bone marrow transplant thanks to these lab-made stem cells.

Victoria

Vern Roberts who is about to turn 100, he was there for the signing of the surrender by the Japanese WW11,very likely one of the last people in the world still alive who witnessed the end of the war. He is part of the team restoring a B24 Liberator at a hanger in Werribee. Vern Roberts stands in front of a B24 Liberator holding the Soho Myna model SK 12 folding camera that was given to him by his mother. Picture: David Caird

Last man standing: The Victorian who photographed end of WWII

On the eve of his 100th birthday, Vern Roberts’ picture perfect memory is a gift that offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes at the end of WWII.

Victoria

Pic of former footballer Jason Watts and his children Ashton, 18, and Millar, 14 and wife Anita. Happy, loving family pic.They lost a son Cade just before he turned 16 and now his family and friends are running a fundraiser for sarcoma research. Picture by Wayne Taylor 28th August 2024

‘I miss him dearly’: AFL legend talks losing his son to cancer

After losing his bright son Cade to cancer last year, Jason Watts says it’s the little things he misses most. The former Bulldogs star talks Father’s Day and how his family are coping with their loss.

Victoria

Professor Sudha Mokkapati from Monash University invented the tiny tool to detect biomarkers in the blood of Alzheimer's. Image: Monash University, ,

This palm-sized smart sensor can tell if you have Alzheimer’s

Monash University engineers have developed a smart sensor no bigger than a Tic Tac box to detect Alzheimer’s disease with a simple finger-prick blood test.

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