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Performance and image-enhancing drugs are more common than you might expect, especially if you're not enmeshed in gym culture. Experts are worried the medical community has fallen behind the rise in steroid use, leaving users physically and mentally vulnerable. Also, at-home testing kits promise to diagnose a range of illnesses from vitamin deficiency to cancers. Are they accurate? And motor neurone disease (MND) is affecting more Australians. With the environment likely to blame, researchers are trying to pin down the culprits.
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1196 - Can your noisy knees predict the future? Sat, 16 Nov 2024
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1195 - Another Trump presidency could give kids more cavities Sat, 09 Nov 2024
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1191 - Not all screens are equal — some help kids with mental health conditions Sat, 12 Oct 2024
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1188 - Why don't we screen everyone for high risk genes? Sat, 21 Sep 2024
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1187 - The man who dated his own kidney stone Sat, 14 Sep 2024
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1186 - Playing sport might protect against concussion harms Sat, 07 Sep 2024
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1185 - Your phone might help you get a good night's sleep Sat, 31 Aug 2024
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1184 - Struggling to keep kids off screens? Here’s how to reduce the harm Sat, 24 Aug 2024
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1179 - Small steps to boost teen mental health Sat, 20 Jul 2024
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1178 - Making pleasure accessible to every body Sat, 13 Jul 2024
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1177 - Your winter blues might be seasonal depression Sat, 06 Jul 2024
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1176 - Counting steps or minutes: How to track exercise Sat, 29 Jun 2024
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1175 - What space travel tells us about ageing Sat, 22 Jun 2024
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1174 - Can you cut a common cold short? Sat, 15 Jun 2024
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1173 - A plan of attack for migraine sufferers Sat, 08 Jun 2024
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1172 - Life-saving changes that could detect breast cancers earlier Sat, 01 Jun 2024
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1171 - Maintaining your mental fitness – and a new culprit for Alzheimer's disease? Sat, 25 May 2024
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1170 - The 'sweet poison' fructose myth, and outgrowing childhood allergies Sat, 18 May 2024
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1169 - Are cows giving us bird flu? And everything we (don't) know about nanoplastics Sat, 11 May 2024
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1168 - Iron for long-COVID, 'holy grail' flu shots, and prolonged grief disorder Sat, 04 May 2024
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1167 - Sports bras support knees, bird flu in milk, and health after prison release Sat, 27 Apr 2024
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1166 - Cow's milk for babies, therapy for trauma, and lives saved by COVID vaccines Sat, 20 Apr 2024
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1165 - Norman Swan on what is schizophrenia? Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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1164 - Treating UTIs (without cranberry juice) and re-examining gender care Sat, 13 Apr 2024
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1163 - When your private health won't pay, and flu vaccine options Sat, 06 Apr 2024
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1161 - ADHD medication a lifesaver? Will cancer treatment damage your ovaries? Sat, 23 Mar 2024
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1160 - Scrapping the term Long-COVID? Is toddler food bad? And the sick quitter effect Sat, 16 Mar 2024
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1159 - Short sleep and diabetes | Menopause and mood | VR patients and emergency Sat, 09 Mar 2024
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1158 - Exercise and depression | Melanoma and access to treatment | Comprehensive research on Sarcoidosis Sat, 02 Mar 2024
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1157 - CORONACAST BONUSCAST: New numbers around (super rare) vaccine side effects Mon, 26 Feb 2024
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1156 - News on long COVID and indoor air quality | Visualising plaque in your arteries | An under-tested blood fat | Kids' risk of poor health in the youth justice system Sat, 24 Feb 2024
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1155 - Insomnia, sun exposure | Low-carb diets | Sodium in food | Hepatitis in kids | Social prescribing Sat, 17 Feb 2024
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1154 - Food for kids in childhood centres—are their brains being starved? | Getting an autism diagnosis as an adult Sat, 10 Feb 2024
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1153 - Why fentanyl isn't so big in Australia? | Risks of under-vaccination | Breast cancer after an early scare | AI shaking up radiology Sat, 03 Feb 2024
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1151 - GLP1 agonists and weight loss | Opioids and cancer pain | Don't neglect dental care | Some back pain resolves, some lingers | Synaesthesia Sat, 27 Jan 2024
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1149 - Australian immunisation rates drop | What are 'incidentalomas'? Mon, 22 Jan 2024
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