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Ashley Hayes and her 4-year-old Heath who suffers from cystic fibrosis. He recently got access to a new treatment through the PBS that would have cost the family $250,000 a year. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

For Heath and friends, cystic fibrosis subsidy a lifeline

Experts have forecast a fundamental shift in the treatment of cystic fibrosis after a new medication was bankrolled by the government.

James Dowling

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11 May 2005: Coca-Cola Amatil plant at Richlands bottling Mount Franklin water - machine operator Trevor Issanchon 31yrs. PicJohn/Wilson production line hair net bottles bottle industry qld workers

Plastics proven to devastate health

The finding that the chemicals in many common products are associated with a wide range of health risks is ‘a red flag for the world’, a researcher said.

Natasha Robinson

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - August 07, 2024:, Researchers Professor Anne-Louise Ponsonby (left) and Dr Wah Chin Boon photographed at the University of Melbourne. Picture: Nadir Kinani / The Australian

Experts call for regulation of plastics linked to autism

Medical experts have called for an overhaul of plastics regulation in Australia as growing evidence indicates that neuroendocrine-disrupting chemicals are linked with the development of autism.

Natasha Robinson

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‘Chronic UTI must be better treated’

The nation’s medical leaders have united to call for the recognition of chronic urinary tract infection amid widespread evidence that thousands of women are being misdiagnosed and undertreated.

Natasha Robinson

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APRIL 20, 2024: People pictured outside St Vincent's Hospital Emergency department in Darlinghurst.Picture: Damian Shaw

Antibiotics shift could save thousands

A simple change to the way antibiotics are given to patients with sepsis and could save thousands of lives, new research has found, promising a ‘game-changing’ approach to a common hospital killer.

Elizabeth Pike and Natasha Robinson

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A chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell destroying a cancer cell (artistic representation)Illustration of CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cell immunotherapy, a process that is being developed to treat cancer. T cells (blue), part of the body's immune system, are taken from the patient and have their DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) modified by viruses (spiky spheres) so that they produce chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) proteins. These proteins will be specific to the patient's cancer. The modified T cells are then multiplied in the laboratory before being reintroduced to the patient.

Cancer therapy offers hope for more

CAR T-cell therapy is a one-off treatment that has fewer side-effects than chemotherapy but currently suffers from very low efficacy rates on solid tumours.

Noah Yim

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Nanotechnology medical treatment and future medicine concept as a group of microscopic nano robots or nanobots programed to kill cancer cells or human disease as a futuristic health care cure symbol as a 3D render. Picture: iStock

How to stop disease before it takes hold

Nanotechnology will teach younger bodies to detect illnesses such as cancer, Parkinsons, heart disease and Alzheimers years before patients ever notice symptoms.

Natasha Robinson

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Selina Rutko and Tahnee, 6 months old, Selina Rutko for a story on rising IVF success rates using frozen eggs. Selina is pregnant also conceived through IVF. Picture: Alex Coppel.

Frozen eggs ‘as good as fresh’

As more women than ever choose to freeze their eggs, advances in IVF techniques mean survival and fertility rates match those of fresh eggs.

James Dowling

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Woman using nasal spray. A woman using a nasal spray to decongest her nose. Sick woman using nasal spray. Woman using nose spray

New treatments a breath away

Vaccines, chemotherapy are among medicines that could be delivered through the lungs; ‘We’re pushing the boundaries of delivery’.

Dominique Mosbergen

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An international team of scientists, led by University of Wollongong (UOW) researcher Dr Natalie Matosin (pictured), has confirmed a genetic association with severe psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia, which may change the face of therapeutic care. Picture: UOW

Genetic link to mental illness found

A genetic association with severe psychiatric disorders could lead to advancements in antipsychotic treatments.

Joanna Panagopoulos

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Kathleen Folbigg appears via video link during a convictions inquiry at the NSW Coroners Court, Sydney, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. An Inquiry continues into convictions of "baby killer" Kathleen Megan Folbigg. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Legal overhaul call as sciences develop

Australia’s most distinguished science body is calling for an overhaul of the way in which scientific evidence, and expert scientific witnesses, are used in the legal system.

Fiona Harari

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 24 SEPTEMBER 2022. FEE MAY APPLY. 28/04/2003 Kathleen Folbigg leaving Darlinghurst Supreme Court with support from The Salvation Army. She is accused of murdering four of her children between 1989 and 1999 in Newcastle area. Murder.

‘Grossest miscarriage of justice since Lindy Chamberlain’

With scientists weighing in on the vexed case of convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg, will she finally be released?

Fiona Harari

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