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The happy news about sad movies

Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling in the film version of <i>The Notebook</i>.

The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows, Rocky Balboa would say, though it is anybody's guess why so many people spend their leisure time watching gloomy movies about it.

How we will get new medicines much faster

Federal Minister for Health Sussan Ley has announced faster approval for medicines that have been registered overseas.

Medicines that have been approved in the United States or Europe will be fast-tracked into the Australian market under new medicine regulations to be introduced by the federal government.

The virus that floored more people than the flu

A computer-generated 3D model of norovirus.

The wave of gastroenteritis outbreaks that affected hundreds of thousands of Australians over winter were caused by not one but three new highly contagious norovirus strains, UNSW researchers found.

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