Hormones

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Health & Medicine

Non-binary people have hormone therapy and surgery more often than you might think

New research finds that a growing number of non-binary people have or want to affirm their gender medically

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Health & Medicine

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Go Figure

Why is there a shortage of oestrogen patches in Australia… again?

Many people rely on hormone replacement therapy during menopause or gender-affirming hormone therapy – but the recurring national shortages of patches look set to continue

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Health & Medicine

5 things you didn’t realise you need to know about perimenopause

One woman having a perimenopausal hot flush on live TV has started a national conversation about normalising the symptoms

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Health & Medicine

How is the contraceptive pill affecting your mood?

A new citizen science project is helping people understand how their menstrual cycle and hormonal birth control affects mood, wellbeing and behaviour

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Sciences & Technology

Herbicide impacts marsupial reproduction and development

New research shows atrazine, a herbicide banned in the EU but widely used in Australia, causes abnormalities in marsupial genitalia

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Health & Medicine

Sea snail venom holds clues for diabetes treatment

Researchers have developed a modified form of human insulin that successfully mimics the ultra fast-acting properties of cone snail venom insulin

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Sciences & Technology

‘Safe’ herbicide in Australian water affects male fertility

Scientists are calling for a herbicide banned in the European Union for the last 15 years to be withdrawn in Australia for its effect on male fertility

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Health & Medicine

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Podcast

The wonders of relaxin

How a pregnancy hormone could help the heart

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Sciences & Technology

The science behind love songs

How love works on our mind, body and soul ... and why we want to write music about it

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Arts & Culture

The myth of Testosterone Rex

Our long-held views on what causes gender differences are wrong. A new book argues it’s much more complicated than we think