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- Tot, 3, fixed by robot 30/07/2025
- Approved drug of hope 21/07/2025
- Parkinson’s implant offers hope 20/07/2025
- The long road to saving Grace 20/07/2025
- Cheers for 40 years of love 18/07/2025
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- Team nurses big hopes of helping kids 13/07/2025
- Jab to treat Parkinson’s 12/07/2025
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- Gift to keep on giving 17/06/2025
- New treatment breakthrough for leukaemia sufferers 14/06/2025
- ‘Absolute miracle’ just keeps defying all odds 14/06/2025
- HIV cure a step closer 07/06/2025
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- Weight loss jab can help sleep issue too 05/06/2025
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- “Miracle drug” ends cancer nightmare 02/03/2025
- Oui do ! Love is not just for the young 10/06/2024
- Gates gives away $1.5bn 30/05/2024
- We can cure Parkinson’s 28/05/2024
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- Surprise finding to help baby 17/05/2024
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- How tiny bub beat the odds 03/03/2024
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Category Archives: Health
Tot, 3, fixed by robot
Little Ivy Napiorkowski has made medical history as Australia’s youngest-ever robotic surgery patient. The three-year-old from Weipa, on the Cape York Peninsula, has undergone the hi-tech procedure to correct a painful kidney condition in what has been called “an extraordinary clinical achievement”. Continue reading
Approved drug of hope
The first treatment for Australians with a rare neurodegenerative disease could help slow the progression of damage to the nervous system. The Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the use of Skyclary(omaveloxolone) for Australians aged 16 and above with Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) this month. An inherited disease that targets the central nervous system, FA causes walking difficulties, fatigue, slow or slurred speech, and loss of reflexes and sensation in the legs, arms and body. It affects one in every 30,000 people. Continue reading
Parkinson’s implant offers hope
After a nearly 20-year battle with Parkinson’s disease, a Queensland grandmother slys she has reclaimed her life with groundbreaking brain stimulation technology. She is one of the first in Australia to receive the latest version of deep brain stimulation technology (DBE), which could offer new hope to some of the thousands of patients struggling with the debilitating condition. Continue reading
The long road to saving Grace
When baby Grace was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, her parents were told she would never take her first steps —but the jiny battler has beaten the odds to be declared cancer-free and is dancing her way into the future-. Grace’s mum, Brooke Holmes, said her firstborn daughter was just eight months old when they received the grim cancer diagnosis and her devastating first thought was: “Will I be organising her funeral instead of her first birthday party?” Continue reading
Milestone for premmies
A groundbreaking neonatal program that helps premature babies leave hospital sooner has reached a major milestone, welcoming back the first family to use the service. Continue reading
HIV cure a step closer
Australian research has found a way to force the HIV virus out of hiding within cells, opening the way to eradicate it from the body. Continue reading
Weight loss jab can help sleep issue too
A popular weight-loss jab has been approved to treat a common sleep desorder in Australia after a new ruling by the medicine regulator.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has given Maunjaro also known as tirzepatide the green tight to treat moderate to severe obstructive deep apnoea in adults with obesity. Continue reading
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Tagged deep apnoea, istration, Maunjaro, obesity, Therapeutic Goods Admin, tirzepatide, type II diabetes, wight-loss jab
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Cancer therapy success in lupus
A Melbourne hospital has successfully treated an incurable auto-immune condition with a “game-changing” cancer therapy for the first time.
Monash Hospital used CAR-T cell therapy – a personalised treatment typically used to treat cancer of the immune system for a patient with lupus in a global trial last June. Continue reading
“Miracle drug” ends cancer nightmare
A “miracle drug” has completely shrunk a baby boy’s tumour without side effects, without the need for surgery or chemotherapy. Continue reading
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Tagged cancerous tumou, chemotherapy, infantile fibrosarcorna, Larotrectinib, miracle drug
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We can cure Parkinson’s
A group of state’s top neurologists have high hopes of stopping or slowing the progression of Parkinson’s dicease via a world-first treatment that targets the gut microbiome with human trials. Continue reading
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Tagged cure, gut microbione, neurologist, Parkinson's, treatment, trial
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Surprise finding to help baby
Queensladers reserachers have discovered the reason more baby boys than girls are still-born and have serious neonatal health problems could be dysfunction in the placenta. Continue reading
AI’s world of hope for kids with cancer
AUSTRALIAN researchers are using revolutionary artificial intelligence (Al) technology to lead the world on how best to treat and cure rare and deadly childhood cancers. Continue reading
Healthy start with program
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Tagged aboriginal, indigenous, premature babies, Torres Strait Islands
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Leukemia drug hope
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Tagged Alfred Hospital, cancer, leukemia, Monash University, Victoria
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Dementia cure in sight as human trials funded
Dementia patients could be on the the cusp of having their disease reversed and their memory restored under a $185 million Morrison Government fight fund for aging. Continue reading