"Easter eggs may be good for you, study suggests"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 31 Mar 2010

Category: Other

Rating: (2 stars)

Keywords: heart, attack, myocardial, infarction, chocolate, cocoa, dark, research

EASTER eggs and other chocolate may be good for the heart and lower blood pressure, provide you eat...
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"Mobile mental health"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 28 Feb 2010

Category: Other

Rating: (2½ stars)

Keywords: depression, teenagers, adolescents, SMS, communication, mobile, phones

A new program will use the integral role the phones play in the lives of Australian teenagers -...
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"Hope for new skin-disorder drug"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 22 Dec 2009

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

Keywords: skin, cancer, drug, trial, tanning

A RADICAL new drug used to treat patients suffering painful sensitivity to sunlight could prevent...
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"Melbourne's Southern Health makes world-first asthma breakthrough"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 26 Aug 2009

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (1 stars)

Keywords: asthma, vocal, chord, dysfunction, humming, whistling, research

CHRONIC asthmatics are able to whistle away their most dangerous attacks after a world-first...
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"New rays of hope on cancer as Cyclotron zeroes in on diseases"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 17 Jul 2009

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (1½ stars)

Keywords: cancer, PET, diagnostic, diagnose, Ludwig

THESE are the most beautiful pictures Linda Cibrasio has ever seen, carrying a simple but powerful...
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"Take two Mars bars and relax"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 15 Jan 2009

Category: Other

Rating: (2 stars)

SWEET tooths rejoice: chocolate bars and drinks could soon replace pills and foul-tasting tonics in...
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"Electric probe zaps away cancer"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 28 Nov 2008

Category: Surgical Procedure

Rating: (2½ stars)

A REVOLUTIONARY treatment that zaps away deadly cancers in minutes is being pioneered at...
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"Eliza hopes to ease the pain"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 28 Nov 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (2½ stars)

DRESSING, writing or walking fast can all lead to months of agonising pain for Eliza Baird.
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"'Risky' pre-natal tests for Down Syndrome could be obsolete"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 07 Oct 2008

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (2 stars)

A NEW prenatal test to detect genetic disorders such as Down's Syndrome could render current...
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"Test spots flu, bird flu instantly"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 01 Oct 2008

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (2 stars)

A NEW genetic flu test can tell almost instantly whether a person has the flu, and which sort -...
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"Intestine lining could replace gastric surgery"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 01 Oct 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (3½ stars)

OBESE people who are contemplating gastric surgery may soon have access to a non-invasive...
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"Melbourne find gives new hope to Huntington's patients"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 18 Jun 2008

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (1½ stars)

PIONEERING Melbourne scientists are giving hope to people with Huntington's disease. They say they...
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"Australian cancer breakthrough will save women's lives"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 04 Jun 2008

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (2½ stars)

HUNDREDS of women could be saved by a world-first blood test developed in Melbourne to detect...
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"Anti-heroin drug bagged"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 21 Apr 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

USE of a controversial stomach implant designed to block the effects
of heroin must be urgently...
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"DNA test saving lives"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 21 Apr 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (3½ stars)

A BLOOD test revealing who is most likely to suffer from deadly meningitis has begun saving...
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"Mouth test could predict lung cancer, study finds"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 14 Apr 2008

Category: Diagnostic Test

Rating: (3½ stars)

DAMAGE to cells lining the mouth can predict similar damage in the lungs that eventually leads to...
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"Hopes rise for Alzheimer's cure"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 19 Mar 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

AUSTRALIAN scientists believe they are a step closer to curing Alzheimer's, with a new drug that...
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"Local diabetes breakthrough hailed"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 19 Mar 2008

Category: Surgical Procedure

Rating: (2 stars)

MELBOURNE researchers have made a breakthrough in the treatment of type-1 diabetes, successfully...
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"Gene therapy offers AIDS hope"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 09 Feb 2008

Category: Other

Rating: (3½ stars)

SCIENTISTS believe they may have pioneered a way to make the HIV/AIDS virus slow its reproduction,...
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"Universal vaccine a weapon against bird flu"

Source: Herald Sun

Published: 05 Jan 2008

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3½ stars)

THE holy grail of flu vaccines is within closer reach after successful human trials in the US. The...
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