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The ability to walk one kilometre comfortably can help predict fracture risk, according to researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. The findings, published today in JAMA Network Open, suggest that simply asking a patient about walking limitation could... 
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Peopled regarded as fat are misdiagnosed, go undiagnosed and face outright disgust from many health-care practitioners.
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Getty ImagesThe release of The Patient's Perspective video marks an important advancement in end-of-life care - acknowledging that a patient's voice
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In 2021, someone died by suicide every 11 minutes in the United States, which equates to nearly 50,000 Americans every year.
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You’re worried and you want to see them well cared for. You’ve tried to talk to them about aged care but been met with swift refusal. Now what?
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Microplastics or tiny plastic particles are everywhere. Now a new study has found them where they've never been seen before, sitting deep inside human lungs. But what does it mean for our health?
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A perplexing factor is at play — one that raises new, sensitive questions about the role of race, genetics and other factors.
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Several companies are entering the American market to disrupt traditional, staid healthcare systems. They see a big opportunity to create change – and make money.
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An experimental village in France for people with Alzheimer’s exemplifies the trend for architects to use their skills to improve the wellbeing of people nearing the end of life
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A doctor puts his life on the line to try and cure his own brain cancer, using the very treatment he helped pioneer to save melanoma patients. (Final for 2023)
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King Charles is having surgery to treat an enlarged prostate. Certain factors cause the condition in the male reproductive organ that’s often noticeable at age 50.
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In “Madness,” the journalist Antonia Hylton explores the hidden history of Crownsville Hospital, and America’s continuing failure to care for Black minds.
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At my father’s prison sentencing, our family promised to take care of him from afar, but it grew increasingly hard to navigate corrections health care.
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When Elmo, the beloved red Muppet, asked “How is everybody doing?” on X, he unwittingly unleashed a torrent of trauma dumping. The responses say something about us — and Elmo’s status as a safe space in which to voice our deepest angst.
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When the Sesame Street puppet asked how people were, thousands of social media users offloaded on him.
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‘Incidentalomas’ – purely incidental findings – arise in up to a third of all tests. Patients can end up with unnecessary and harmful interventions
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The wall sit, an isometric exercise, has been shown to help lower blood pressure better than other types of exercise.
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In the US, the maker of Robitussin cough syrup is recalling several products containing honey due to contamination. If you're someone reaching for cough syrups reguarly during cold spells you're not alone.
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About 11 percent of people over 65 spend 50 or more days each year (nearly one day a week) obtaining routine health care, the study found.
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Potassium-enriched salt tastes like regular salt and you don’t need to change how you cook or season your food. You just need to switch the type of salt you buy.
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As I checked in at a Manhattan radiology clinic for my annual mammogram in November, the front desk staffer reviewing my paperwork asked an unexpected question: Would I like to spend $40 for an artificial intelligence analysis of my mammogram? It’s not covered by insurance, she added.
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Once a popular kids' TV host, Fiona MacDonald is on the trip of a lifetime. Since being diagnosed with motor neurone disease two years ago, she's driving around Australia to raise money for research, and have fun on the way.
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Peter Mellow's insight:
Smart Step, dance pad for seniors to decrease risk of falls.
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For Mental Health Week, ABC Classic FM presenters Russell Torrance and Martin Buzacott share their own mental health journeys.
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I blame pop culture, specifically film and TV, for giving me an unrealistic idea of how things in the real world operate
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