Treatment: Scientists create minute ‘drills’ to kill cancer cells
Minute machines that can kill cancer cells in just 60 seconds by drilling into them have been created by scientists. The “nanomachines”...
Supportive Care: Medicinal cannabis gets green light
Tasmanians will have access to medicinal cannabis from today under a new Controlled Access Scheme. Health Minister, Michael Ferguson said...
Skin Cancer: Insurers get under skin of doctors on surgery costs
The Health Department has been forced to intervene in a dispute between health funds, doctors and private hospitals over skin procedures...
Research: Hope in cancer fight
Scientists have new hope in the fight against cancer after finding a treatment that works better than chemotherapy. Powerful chemotherapy...
Tobacco: Butt out in units
One in five Victorians is being exposed to second-hand smoke at home, and the majority of people support a ban on lighting up in shared...
Treatment: Now cancer fight gets personal
Thousands of cancer patients will have their treatment matched to a genetic profile under personalised medicine programs that are...
Research: Kid cancer trail on way
A “ground-breaking” clinical trial experts believe will transform the way childhood brain cancer is treated has been fast-tracked in...
Screening: Genetic trials target rare-cancer patients
Relatives of Australians battling rare cancers will have full-body scans to detect the disease “silently” lurking in their bodies under a...
Research: Wonder food just got better
Scientists have long linked avocados with a range of health benefits, from anti-ageing to cancer fighting. In the first study of its...
Screening: Life, and mammograms, begin at 40
Forty is the optimal age for women to start having regular mammograms to reduce the number of breast cancer deaths, the findings of a US...
