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A cartilage transplant allowed 18-year-old Kayla Pheeney to walk pain-free for the first time in nine years.
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| UpdatedIn the business of bone donation, old hips are giving new life to people needing reconstructive surgery.
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| UpdatedThere are cheers in the suburbs of Perth where the US FDA's decision to approve the first drug to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy - a treatment designed locally - could change lives.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, bones-and-muscles, health, science-and-technology, science, research, medical-research, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA ground-breaking drug developed by Perth researchers to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, bones-and-muscles, health, science-and-technology, medical-research, perth-6000
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A medical expert takes issue with celebrity chef Pete Evans for telling an osteoporosis sufferer to remove dairy from her diet as it "removes calcium" from bones.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, osteoporosis, bones-and-muscles, health, lifestyle-and-leisure, popular-culture, dairy-production, food-and-cooking, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThey might still be teenagers, but these Paralympic hopefuls are gunning for a spot in the pool at Rio 2016.
Topics: paralympics, swimming, youth, cerebral-palsy, bones-and-muscles, cairns-4870, sydney-2000, newcastle-2300, brisbane-4000, brazil
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Investigations are underway after bones were found in bushland on the New South Wales South Coast.
Topics: bones-and-muscles, police, wollongong-2500, culburra-beach-2540
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Staff say the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria's new facility at Southbank in Melbourne will allow them to provide more life-saving tissue.
Topics: medical-procedures, skin, heart-disease, bones-and-muscles, southbank-3006
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| UpdatedThe simple task of creating hand-shaped pictures has become an amazing tool for clients at Muscular Dystrophy South Australia to express their inner thoughts through art therapy.
Topics: visual-art, bones-and-muscles, counselling, disabilities, adelaide-5000
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Queensland researchers are pushing for myasthenia gravis, a rare disease that causes muscle weakness and affects about 2,000 Australians, to be better understood by patients and other members of the public.
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| UpdatedOsteoporosis is not being properly diagnosed or treated by doctors in Australia, causing thousands of unnecessary fractures and costing the health system more than a billion dollars, leading doctors say.
Topics: health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, diseases-and-disorders, bones-and-muscles, australia
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On this episode: a look at the Australian who's developing the world's first bionic heart; concern over electric shock devices applied to children to improve concentration and heartbreaking stories from rehabilitation centres for ice or methamphetamine.
Topics: health, adolescent-health, brain-and-nervous-system, child-health-and-behaviour, bones-and-muscles, multiple-sclerosis, doctors-and-medical-professionals, drug-use, addictive, australia
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| UpdatedSydney researchers successfully trial 3D printed skull implants which give potential to other body replacements in the future.
Topics: breakthroughs, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, neuroscience, bones-and-muscles, the-university-of-sydney-2006
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Body parts printed in a lab may be the next frontier in biomedical engineering, a team of Sydney researchers say.
Topics: bones-and-muscles, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-research, science-and-technology, breakthroughs, neuroscience
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| UpdatedThis animation from the University Medical Center Utrecht shows the procedure to repair bone tissue using 3D Bioprinting.
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| UpdatedTopics: forensic-science, bones-and-muscles, police, death, emmaville-2371, inverell-2360, tamworth-2340
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Bones, believed to be human, have been discovered on a property at Emmaville, north of Glen Innes.
Topics: forensic-science, bones-and-muscles, death, police, emmaville-2371, inverell-2360, tamworth-2340, glen-innes-2370
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| UpdatedAlice Springs police have confirmed that skeletal remains found outside the town are human.
Topics: community-and-society, death, bones-and-muscles, missing-person, police, darwin-0800, alice-springs-0870
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The region's rescue helicopter has capped off a busy week, flying an injured fisherman out of deep gorge country near the Queensland border.
Topics: emergency-incidents, bones-and-muscles, heart-disease, sports-injuries, doctors-and-medical-professionals, healthcare-facilities, tenterfield-2372, ashford-2361, barraba-2347, gunnedah-2380, manilla-2346, tamworth-2340, walcha-2354
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| UpdatedResearchers have shown a class of drugs used to treat heart problems and hypertension also reduces the risk of an osteoporosis fracture by about half.
Topics: osteoporosis, health, diseases-and-disorders, bones-and-muscles, medical-research, australia, dubbo-2830
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The Shoalhaven Cancer Care Centre is a step closer following the appointment of architects and managers for the $35 million project.
Topics: cancer, health, diseases-and-disorders, blood, bones-and-muscles, bowel-and-rectal-cancer, brain-tumor, breast-cancer, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-procedures, medical-research, rehabilitation, womens-health, nowra-2541, ulladulla-2539, wollongong-2500