This article first appeared in The Conversation. Roughly one in six people are affected by infertility worldwide. And with more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas, researchers are interested in whether living in noisy and polluted cities could be to blame. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today A … Read more
Nikki Bruce thought she was just a “bit off” when she went to her shift as a security guard in Cairns last year. She gave her boss the heads-up that she didn’t feel 100 per cent — which would possibly end up saving her life. The now 61-year-old didn’t know it, but she was having … Read more
The average age Australian women start going through menopause is 52. Menopausal symptoms range in severity but can include a loss of lean muscle tissue, hormonal changes, weight gain, loss of skin elasticity, hot flushes and insomnia. Nutritionist Donna Aston, the director of online health and wellness company AstonRX from Melbourne, believes menopause is wildly … Read more
I read the news every day on Sunrise. Today, I shared some news of my own. I have cancer. It’s not the headline I expected to deliver about my own life, but I suppose no one ever does. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today The type of cancer is Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia. … Read more
I read the news every day on Sunrise. Today, I shared some news of my own. I have cancer. It’s not the headline I expected to deliver about my own life, but I suppose no one ever does. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today The type of cancer is Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia. … Read more
Whooping cough cases have skyrocketed in Victoria, with the state’s health department labelling the worrying increase a “public health concern”. More than 10 times the number of cases has been recorded so far in 2024 than for the whole of last year, with children aged 9–12 accounting for nearly 40 per cent of all cases. … Read more
Australian scientists have made a world-first stem cell breakthrough that could put an end to agonising searches for bone marrow donors needed to treat critical conditions. The findings, published in Nature Biotechnology, could eventually benefit patients like Riya Mahajan, who was diagnosed with life-threatening blood disorder aplastic anaemia at the age of 11. She had … Read more
Most 21-year-olds are busy planning their birthday parties, studying or saving for a European summer holiday, not recovering from life-changing surgery. But Australian model Lilly Chugg, now 22, from Newcastle, received the shock of her life almost two years ago when tests revealed she had the BRCA gene in her family, a discovery she made … Read more
Archie was approaching his first birthday when he suddenly developed a fever and a “fine red rash” across his back and abdomen. When the symptom persisted for 48 hours, his mother, Kylie Read, took him to the hospital where, three days later, Archie would take his last breath in his her arms, unrecognisably swollen and … Read more
An Australian couple are urgently trying to save money for their mother’s surgery after she suffered a heart attack on her son’s wedding day. Gian Biduare and his bride Danline Faye Canuta had travelled from Australia to celebrate their wedding with family in the Philippines in 2022 but their happiness was soon overshadowed when Gian’s … Read more
