A straw to stop hiccups
A specially-made straw relieves the annoying condition.
What’s your home remedy for hiccups? Holding your breath, drinking water upside down, having a fright, giving up and ...
Body and Mind
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A heart-stopping football match could stop the heart
Hospital admissions due to heart attack spiked during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
If you are getting stressed or angry when watching a tense football match, watch out – it could lead to heart attack....
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Infertility of mice and men
New research locates a gene that causes infertility – and then gives it to mice.
A team of Chinese researchers has used mice to identify a gene that causes male infertility, which may pave a way tow...
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Conversation
Why it took 20 years to 'finish' the human genome
And why there’s still more to do.
By Melissa Southey, Monash University and Tu Nguyen-Dumont, Monash University The release of the draft human genom...
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Sports injury forecast in a blood test… coming soon to a footy team near you?
The Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics is working on a simple blood test to forecast whether a pla...
Port Adelaide footy players are rightly feeling pretty good. They are sitting in fifth position on the AFL ladder, ha...
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Motivating mighty mitochondria
Here’s good news if you’ve gotten a little lazy: you’ll draw health benefits almost instantly fro...
Health researchers have long known you don’t have to train like an Olympian to stave off obesity, diabetes, and the o...
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Stolen Generations survivors still face poorer health outcomes
Those removed from their families are worse off than other Indigenous Australians.
Survivors of the Stolen Generations aged over 50 have poorer health and socioeconomic demographics than other Indigen...
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Vitamin D does not prevent COVID-19
No evidence that the vitamin shields against SARS-CoV-2.
Canadian researchers investigating a potential link between vitamin D and COVID-19 have found no evidence that the vi...
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Dementia’s rising pressure
New study might provide clues to help slow the rapid growth of dementia around the world.
New research published today in the journal BMC Medicine has revealed differences in how blood pressure affects the r...
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AFL concussion rule didn’t help recovery time in 2020
Despite the five-day rule, players returned to the field too early in 2020.
The AFL’s five-day rule designed to promote player recovery following a concussion may not have been effective in 202...
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Olympic genes to go higher, faster, stronger?
Sports doping experts have been sounding warnings about gene engineering for decades, and its dir...
In preparation for the postponed Tokyo Olympics, athletes all around the world are lining up to be injected with gene...
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One billion doses reached
Global vaccine rollout is underway, but disparity might not allow us to get the pandemic under co...
About a week ago, the world reached a remarkable milestone. Only 14 months after the World Health Organization (WHO) ...