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Lizzo addresses Ozempic speculation amid weight-loss transformation.
Culture
Georgie Kearney

Lizzo addresses Ozempic speculation amid weight-loss journey

The singer has embarked on a physical and mental health transformation.

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Shalom House is the creation of Peter Lyndon-James, a self-styled Colonel Kurtz of the drug rehab world. 
Australia
Ben Harvey

What it’s like inside Australia’s hardest drug rehab centre

Ben Harvey spent seven days with addicts in Australia’s hardest drug rehab centre to find out whether the country’s most controversial centre is an effective health service or a barely disguised religious cult.

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Statins may slash the risk of developing more than 20 cancers, as well as cutting deaths from heart disease, a study shows.
Health
Roger Dobson

The common medicine that slashes risk of major cancers

A commonly prescribed medication may slash the risk of developing more than 20 cancers, as well as cutting deaths from heart disease, a study shows.

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Paracetamol overdose revealed as the partial cause of death of a 73-year-old woman in Canberra Hospital in 2021, a coroner’s report has found.
Australia
Hayley Taylor

Sharyn was given paracetamol when she arrived at hospital. It wound up killing her

The coroner found the hospital lacked ’specific’ procedures relating to paracetamol administration at the time.

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Lola Ross was a happy, healthy baby before her parents discovered she had a rare, aggressive cancer.
Health
Ailish Delaney

Lola had a sweet, crooked smile. It was the sign of a deadly disease

The 10-month-old was a ‘happy, healthy’ baby when things took a turn.

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HBF chief executive Lachlan Henderson says new hospitals are still opening, with more now operating than before the pandemic.
Business
Sean Smith

HBF back in black as market share hits 20-year high

The return to profit was aided by a bigger share of the national market, with the WA group now sitting on 8.05 per cent as it seeks to attract and retain new and younger members.

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Social media, especially TikTok, has become a hub for health advice that often isn’t based on evidence and can even be harmful.
CNBC
CNBC

The truth about the TikTok health trends you want to try

Social media, especially TikTok, has become a hub for health advice that often isn’t based on evidence and can even be harmful.

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JENI O’DOWD: Australia’s love affair with alcohol is no secret — coming into work hungover after a big night out used to earn you a badge of honour. But things are changing.
Opinion
Jeni O’Dowd

We lecture teens on booze but we’re the problem

JENI O’DOWD: Australia’s love affair with alcohol is no secret — coming into work hungover after a big night out used to earn you a badge of honour. But things are changing.

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Researchers have found nighttime light exposure disrupted people's body clocks with had a knock-on effect on their metabolism and health.
Health
Professor Rob Galloway

The small sleep trick that’s helping me lose weight

Australian researchers found there’s one thing disrupting our sleep that has a knock-on effect on metabolism and our risk of weight gain and diabetes. And it’s easy to fix.

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Running slower may produce better results for wellbeing.
Health
Libby Galvin

Why running slower is better for your heart

Slow and steady wins the race, the old saying goes – and now it also seems to apply to the health benefits from exercise.

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Pink doughnut on pastel blue background
Opinion
Susannah Jowitt

Giving kids weight-loss jabs will make them fatter

SUSANNAH JOWITT: My childhood was a misery of diets as my mother told me I was fat, but new efforts to keep kids thin, like giving them weight-loss jabs of Ozempic or Saxenda will end up making them fatter.

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Deep down you know that scoffing a family sized chocolate bar in front of the TV or eating an entire takeout pizza by yourself makes you feel not just guilty, but sluggish and ill.
opinion
Health
Dr Jen Unwin

How to find out if you’re addicted to junk food

Deep down you know that scoffing a family sized chocolate bar in front of the TV or eating an entire takeout pizza by yourself makes you feel not just guilty, but sluggish and ill. 

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A quarter of our population avoids this structural protein, so why does Australia have a gluten-free obsession?
Health
Sarah Di Lorenzo

Why do Australians have a gluten-free obsession?

SARAH DI LORENZO: A quarter of our population avoids gluten but only one per cent have coeliac disease. So what’s really going on here?

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Australia’s ‘patchwork’ fertility sector is putting unnecessary complications and stress on already vulnerable patients, according to a landmark report.
Health
Georgina Noack

Calls for urgent IVF changes to help vulnerable patients

Australia’s ‘patchwork’ fertility sector is putting unnecessary complications and stress on already vulnerable patients, according to a landmark report.

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A judge has sentenced a woman to four months’ suspended imprisonment over a COVID-19 infection.
World
Staff Writers

Woman found guilty of fatally infecting neighbour with COVID

A woman has been found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbour with COVID in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year

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