"Calcium supplements 'raise heart risk'"

Source: The Age

Published: 31 Jul 2010

Category: Adverse Effects

Rating: (3 stars)

Keywords: calcium, supplement, cardiac, heart, attack

People taking calcium supplements have about a 30 per cent higher risk of heart attack, research...
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"Easing labour pain naturally"

Source: The Age

Published: 07 Apr 2010

Category: Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Rating: (1 stars)

Keywords: hypnotherapy, hypnobirthing, labour, birth, pain

CHANTAL Stravens can still remember her sister's nails digging into her arms. The assault came 14...
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"Radical ovarian cancer treatment offers hope"

Source: The Age

Published: 24 Feb 2010

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

Keywords: chemotherapy, ovarian, cancer, research, melbourne, immunotherapy

EARLY results from a new cancer treatment pioneered in Melbourne show that advanced ovarian cancer...
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"Melbourne HIV test could help millions"

Source: The Age

Published: 04 Jun 2009

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (4½ stars)

MELBOURNE scientists have developed a HIV test that could significantly improve the lives of...
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"New look at heart disease"

Source: The Age

Published: 25 Mar 2009

Category: Other

Rating: (1 stars)

A NEW machine at Melbourne's Northern Hospital that allows doctors to see cholesterol-blocked blood...
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"Want to prevent a heart attack? Try injecting cholesterol"

Source: The Age

Published: 14 Nov 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (2½ stars)

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"Broken leg bones healed in stem cell first"

Source: The Age

Published: 07 Aug 2008

Category: Surgical Procedure

Rating: (2½ stars)

NINE Victorians are among the first people in the world to have broken leg bones healed using their...
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"Results of drug study spark treatment hope"

Source: The Age

Published: 31 Jul 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (4 stars)

AN AUSTRALIAN discovery has been recognised as one of the best hopes for a cure for Alzheimer's...
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"New hope for HIV sufferers"

Source: The Age

Published: 24 Jul 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3½ stars)

RESEARCHERS have discovered a potent new drug that effectively blocks HIV in people with highly...
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"New vision for treating eye disease"

Source: The Age

Published: 19 Jun 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (1½ stars)

AN AUSTRALIAN company has developed a new way of treating the nation's leading cause of blindness...
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"Cancer diagnosis slightly hampered by colours and curls"

Source: The Age

Published: 12 May 2008

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (2½ stars)

A TEST that uses hair samples to detect breast cancer will be available in Australia by the end of...
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"Brain boosters the drug of choice for the anxious intellectual"

Source: The Age

Published: 04 May 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

'Cognition enhancers' sharpen the mind and calm nerves, but at what cost? John Mangan reports.
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"New drug a breath of fresh air for Harry"

Source: The Age

Published: 02 May 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1 stars)

HARRY Coffey has spent a lot of time coughing in the past, including on the football field as a...
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"Blood test 'helps track prostate cancer'"

Source: The Age

Published: 07 Mar 2008

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (3 stars)

Testing men with prostate cancer for a substance called endoglin in their blood may help doctors...
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"Antidepressants ineffective: study"

Source: The Age

Published: 27 Feb 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (4 stars)

Popular antidepressants are a waste of time for most depressed people, research suggests.
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"Hands-free CPR device on trial in rural areas"

Source: The Age

Published: 20 Feb 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (3 stars)

VICTORIAN ambulances are trialling a new CPR device that could prove to be one of the greatest...
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"Vitamin E for vim and vigour"

Source: The Age

Published: 23 Jan 2008

Category: Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Rating: (3½ stars)

Vitamin E may help elderly people keep their vim and vigour, researchers have said.
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"Oral insulin could take needle out of diabetes"

Source: The Age

Published: 06 Jan 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

HUNDREDS of thousands of diabetes sufferers may soon be able to inhale their insulin, doing away...
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"New test will end 'wasted' chemo"

Source: The Age

Published: 08 Oct 2007

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

A SYDNEY scientist has created a world-first test that could save or extend the lives of cancer...
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"Skin patch stops travelers' diarrhea: study"

Source: The Age

Published: 20 Sep 2007

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

Scientists at a major disease conference Wednesday announced a skin-patch vaccine that can save the...
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