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If you are stung by a bluebottle, try to remain as still as possible as movement causes the venom to spread more quickly.

Forget ice packs: we've been treating bluebottle stings all wrong

Getting stung by a blue bottle is an Australian rite of passage, but conventional wisdom around treatment may have been - up until now - all wrong.

  • by Laura Chung

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Tanya Hall was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after giving birth to her son.

Women at higher risk of breast cancer after childbirth

Women may be at increased risk of breast cancer for more than two decades after giving birth, new research suggests.

  • by Kate Aubusson
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Thoughts of death: doctors can't predict who will suicide by asking

Most people who died of suicide deny they experience suicidal thoughts to their doctors, a major study shows.

  • by Kate Aubusson
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