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A 32-year study of more than 47,000 women has found a link drinking coffee and healthy ageing.

Drinking coffee linked to better ageing in women, new study finds

Enjoying your coffee? Research from a 32-year study reveals women who drink coffee are more likely to experience cognitive benefits later in life, but there are caveats.

  • Charlotte Lytton

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Associate Professor Andrea Phillipou, principal research fellow at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne.

Anorexia is the deadliest mental health condition. Experts say we are treating it completely wrong

The biased idea that anorexia nervosa affects only young, affluent women, and an emphasis on weight restoration, are contributing to such a lack of research; there have been no treatment breakthroughs for 50 years.

  • Wendy Tuohy

Four ways women are physically stronger than men

Across a variety of sports, women are not just catching up after generations of exclusion from athletics – they’re setting the pace.

  • Starre Vartan
Hannah, Eliza, Poppy, Hannah and Chloe from Genazzano’s senior cross-country team at the interschool cross-country competition at Cruden Farm on Friday.

Gender play gap: Girls lag far behind in sport participation

Teenage girls participate in sport at half the rate of their male peers.

  • Bridie Smith
Premier Jacinta Allan had heavy and drawn-out periods as a young person, later diagnosed as endometriosis.

‘Wild with rage’: It took Jacinta Allan more than a decade to learn the source of her pain

Women who have sought help over years for a condition more common than diabetes say they have felt gaslit and disbelieved, and live in excruciating pain. Jacinta Allan is among the 1 million Australians hoping for better.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Lilli Staff was told her debilitating pelvic pain was normal.

Why women deserve to be treated seriously when they are in pain

“First, do no harm” has long been a guiding principle of medicine. What if instead it was, “first, listen to the patient”?

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Lilli Staff at her home about a year and a half after undergoing stenting to treat her chronic pelvic pain.

‘I was alive but not living’: The chance discovery that saved Lilli chronic pelvic pain

“What did you do to me?” How a surgeon stumbled upon a treatment for her patient’s long-dismissed pain.

  • Kate Aubusson
The new Ainsworth Endometriosis Research Centre aims to revolutionise treatment options for people like Adele Taylor.

It took six years to diagnose Adele with endometriosis. A $50m donation aims to end the wait

Adele Taylor’s abdomen is a pin cushion of surgery scars. A world-first institute in Sydney is moving away from this one-size-fits-all treatment for endometriosis.

  • Kate Aubusson
Adriana Donato was a 20-year-old University of Melbourne student in the last year of a science degree when she was murdered.

‘Indefensible’: Murderer accidentally given day release without grieving mother being told

Grace Donato’s daughter Adriana was killed with a hunting knife by her ex-boyfriend in 2012. Grace discovered by chance that the killer had been allowed out on day release.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Samantha Needle struggled with weight gain during perimenopause but got back on track by focusing on strength and fitness.

So you’ve gained weight in menopause. Here’s how to deal with it

Understanding the reasons for those additional kilos is the first step to finding effective ways to manage it. A little self-love doesn’t hurt either.

  • Claire Burke

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