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Australia's medical research sector mourns one of its giants after Basil Hetzel, who confirmed the link between iodine deficiency and brain damage in unborn children, dies.
Topics: death, community-and-society, health, medical-history, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAn American journalist is using digital storytelling to share the life stories of patients with dementia, helping carers to better empathise with the people they are caring for.
Topics: alzheimers-and-dementia, diseases-and-disorders, health, family-and-children, community-and-society, medical-history, history, carers, aged-care, brisbane-4000, inverell-2360, united-states
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| UpdatedThe American surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich manoeuvre for choking victims, dies aged 96 after suffering a heart attack.
Topics: death, community-and-society, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-history, united-states
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A new project in maternity units in northern New South Wales aims to make Indigenous families feel more welcome in hospitals.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, womens-health, family-and-children, family, medical-history, lismore-2480, tweed-heads-2485, grafton-2460, murwillumbah-2484, byron-bay-2481
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Topics: health, medical-history, rural-women, orbost-3888
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Topics: health, medical-history, rural-women, orbost-3888
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When English couple Margaret and David Hollands set sail on a two-year working holiday to Australia in 1961, they know never expected they would end up running a general practice in Orbost for the next 40 years.
Topics: health, medical-history, orbost-3888
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Topics: health, medical-history, rural-women, orbost-3888
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We often hear about the mass exodus of Australians that headed off to London in search of cultural excitement and career opportunity in the 1960s. This interview documents movement in the opposite direction, with ABC Gippsland reporter Rachel Lucas asking Margaret Hollands how she and husband David Hollands came to set-up a general practice in Orbost in 1963. Read more.
Topics: health, medical-history, rural-women, orbost-3888
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Topics: medical-history, historians, gold, mining-rural, aboriginal, regional, regional-development, laverton-6440
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Topics: medical-history, historians, gold, mining-rural, aboriginal, regional, regional-development, laverton-6440
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Topics: medical-history, historians, gold, mining-rural, aboriginal, regional, regional-development, laverton-6440
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Topics: medical-history, historians, gold, mining-rural, aboriginal, regional, regional-development, laverton-6440
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Dr Charles Laver was a bike-riding humanitarian and mining entrepreneur who continues to colour the mystique and charm of the WA Goldfields.
Topics: history, gold, regional, regional-development, aboriginal, medical-history, doctors-and-medical-professionals, laverton-6440
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The idea of the womb being the seat of irrational and emotional behaviour in women has seemed perfectly logical to men throughout history.
Topics: sexual-health, womens-health, feminism, medical-history, australia
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Recent research into mortality and population data covering about 40 countries indicates humankind may already have hit its longevity ceiling.
Topics: aged-care, biology, history, womens-health, mens-health, health, medical-history, medical-research, united-states
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When it comes to DNA testing, issues of privacy and ownership are still being worked out.
Topics: genetics, dna, dna-testing, health, medical-ethics, medical-history, medical-procedures, canberra-2600, act
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Topics: health, mental-health, medical-history, history, community-and-society, wacol-4076
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Topics: medical-history, health, history, community-and-society, mental-health, wacol-4076
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| UpdatedMass-produced and pasteurised beer could soon be transformed after the discovery of centuries old ale remnants containing massive amounts of beneficial bacteria.
Topics: alcohol, alcohol-education, history, medical-history, science, science-and-technology, tas
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| UpdatedA woman who suffered "excruciating" pain after her breast burst following cosmetic surgery calls for greater transparency, after finding out her doctor had been sued several times for negligence.
Topics: medical-procedures, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-ethics, health, medical-history, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedLunatic asylums have gone out of fashion. But what has replaced them and why were they thought to be a good idea in the first place?
Topics: health, mental-health, history, medical-research, medical-procedures, medical-ethics, medical-history, australia
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It took the plight of a young white girl to draw attention to the horrible conditions Indigenous sufferers of leprosy had to endure in the NT.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, medical-ethics, medical-history, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedFormer residents of a now-abandoned leprosarium are hoping to bring the ghostly facility back to life so it can be used to nurture young people in Western Australia's far north.
Topics: community-and-society, diseases-and-disorders, medical-history, derby-6728