Major study finds link between eating fish and getting skin cancer
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A study in the US has drawn a link between eating fish regularly and getting life-threatening skin cancer.
Researchers from Brown University found people who ate an average of 42.8 grams of fish each day were 22 per cent more likely to develop malignant melanoma than people who only ate fish rarely. That figure does not...
Melbourne researchers develop new anti-cancer drugs which put cancers to sleep… permanently
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Australian scientists have taken a "major step forward" in the world of cancer research with the discovery of a new type of drug that can put cancer cells in animals into a permanent state of sleep.
Key points:
Cancer cells treated with the drugs "are not dead but they can no longer divide and proliferate"
The d...
More children will finally have access to a Type 1 Diabetes Insulin Pump - Dutton
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20 October 2013
The federal Minister for Health, the Hon Peter Dutton, today announced funding to help children with Type 1 Diabetes gain access to an insulin pump to help them manage their disease. “Although the former Labor government announced, in a blaze of publicity, funding to subsidise more insulin pumps for these childre...
