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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

CUTTING EDGE. Professor Mark Shackleton is undertaking world-first research into the genetics of cancer at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

How Vic man’s sight was saved with world-first ‘smart’ drug

A Victorian grandfather is the first person in the world to have his sight saved by a new “smart” drug to treat a rare eye cancer.

Victoria

St Kilda AFLW Vice Captain Hannah Stuart is a cardiac nurse by day and St KildaÃs co-captain by night. Picture: Ian Currie

How a heart nurse is pouring her soul into the Saints

She nurses heart patients by day and plays for St Kilda’s AFLW team at night. Here’s how Hannah Stuart makes it work.

Victoria

HOLD FOR AUG 31 12 year old Rosemary penned a letter to us recently Cancer Council where she came up with an idea where mini robots would go into the body to kill cancer. He said her idea sounded a lot like immunotherapy.Pictures with researcher Illa Voskoboink.Picture by Wayne Taylor 17th August 2023

Excitement grows over blood cancer treatment

An emerging, promising blood cancer treatment that uses a patient’s own immune system to seek out and destroy cancer cells has researchers elated but baffled.

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Kirsty BAKER is 25, her dog is Ollie. She runs her own business. A national study of women that has found 1:2 suffer pelvic pain, most too embarrassed to talk to their GP about it. Kirsty has Polycystic ovarian syndrome; suffers painful periods. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Pain forces half of Aussie women to skip everyday tasks

A new national survey shows around half of the country’s adult female population miss work, study or exercise because of debilitating pelvic pain.

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Powerful new daily pill to control cancer

A new once-a-day pill to control cancer has been trialled on Victorian patients, with the results being hailed as a “game changer”.

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A patient who has health insurance is getting a check up at the dentist. Picture: iStock.

Crackdown on booming cosmetic dental industry

The Dental Board of Australia is clamping down on the lucrative cosmetic dental industry following an increase in patient complaints about procedures such as veneers.

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Hector Saenz fell ill with Covid two weeks before Christmas and is one of Two Australians who required a lung transplant following the infection. Image Supplied

From a sniffle to death’s door: How Hector survived Covid

Don’t tell Hector Saenz Covid is “just like a bad cold”. Struck down so badly by the virus, it took 1500 people, 4000 hours of care and a double lung transplant to save him. This is his story.

Victoria

Scientist in lab doing research and using lab machines, test tubes, microscope and every laboratory equipment

Breast cancer drug a ‘light at end of tunnel’

Young Australian women newly diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer may soon have access to a potentially lifesaving drug that fights cancer and stops it returning.

Victoria

Dr Andrew Stephens, group head of the Ovarian Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, Hudson Institute of Medical Research and Invion advisory board member.Picture: Supplied

Blood test game changer for ovarian cancer

A groundbreaking Melbourne discovery for ovarian cancer — one of the most difficult to detect — is set to save lives and protect fertility.

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Work on the biggest health infrastructure project in Victoria’s history has begun with new designs, unveiled for the $1.5 billion Footscray Hospital, which will deliver thousands of jobs and better care, for Melbourne’s west. Supplied artists impression.

First look inside new $1.5b Footscray hospital

Footscray’s new hospital will give families in the west access to the “very best facilities”. See inside the world-class building set to open in 2025.

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