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Greg Hunt
Plan to tackle endometriosis top of list at COAG health ministers meeting
The federal Health Minister Greg Hunt will place a draft national action plan on endometriosis front and centre at the COAG health ministers meeting on Friday.
- by Esther Han
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Illness
Do you have a cold or the flu? And do you need to go to a GP?
As we head into April, we have truly entered cold and flu season.
- by Mary Ward
ACT
Canberra mother questions delays to prescription monitoring laws
More than eight years after Ann Finlay lost her son to prescription drugs, she is still asking why the ACT still has no real-time monitoring system.
- by Daniel Burdon
WA
WA supports lifting smoking age - but only if rest of Australia does
There has been a push to lift the legal smoking age in Australia to 21 years old.
Opinion
WA
Beyond a binary approach: why WA must legalise vaping now
In the George Orwell classic Animal Farm, there was a binary notion that the animals lived by – “four legs good, two legs bad”.
Science
There's a postal network running through your veins. Can it heal you?
The way the trillions of cells that make up your body stay in touch might lead to new treatments for diseases such as cancer.
- by Liam Mannix
Food
People aren’t born with a 'taste' for fat – they learn it
It is our diet, rather than our genes, that has the greatest impact on our fat sensitivity, a new Australian study of twins has found.
- by Aisha Dow
Queensland
The push to turn Queensland's mental health strategy on its head
Three years ago, Lyndall Baker’s life fell apart. Now there's a push to change our mental health system to better cater to people like her.
- by Jorge Branco
Life & Relationships
The syndrome that makes people think their loved ones are impostors
And the Australian professor who knows why.
- by Meeri Kim
Canberra
Amy to make a difference at Canberra MS Walk + Fun Run
Amy was on a working holiday in Thailand when she experienced complete blindness in her left eye and a crippling headache. She was diagnosed with MS.
- by Megan Doherty