Personalised Medicine
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Health & Medicine
Could your GP prescribe a Parkrun instead of a pill?
‘Social prescribing’ is a growing area where health professionals connect patients to non-medical services and activities to benefit their wellbeing
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Health & Medicine
Using the right test for the right person to detect bowel cancer
A new online tool uses personalised risk to detect bowel cancers earlier and with greater precision
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Health & Medicine
Explaining AI’s role in precision medicine
Adding Artificial Intelligence research to precision medicine is the future – but any collaboration between AI researchers and clinicians must include the human factor
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Health & Medicine
Exercise really is medicine
Research untangles how mitochondria – our cellular powerhouses – respond to exercise, opening the pathway for personalising fitness to maximise health benefits
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Health & Medicine
Unmasking cancers with hidden identity
Cancer treatment is largely based on where it originates in the body, but when a primary site can’t be found, genomics is helping guide diagnosis and treatment for cancers of unknown origin
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Health & Medicine
The Global Cancer Atlas
Scientists around the world have collaborated to create the most comprehensive map of whole cancer genomes to date, improving our fundamental understanding of cancer and how to treat it
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Health & Medicine
Personalising blood sugar targets
In a new era of personalised medicine, technology can help doctors offer more tailored healthcare for diseases like type 2 diabetes
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Health & Medicine
Rethinking gastrointestinal cancer diagnosis
The reliance on colonoscopies for cancer diagnosis is unsustainable, and while exciting new and simpler techniques are coming, we need to better use our humble stool test
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Health & Medicine
The simple, ethical case for gene editing
Gene editing is a form of ‘ultimate cure’: it treats disease at its very root. This edited extract from the new book, Genes for Life, explores the ethical implications of this rapidly evolving technology
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Health & Medicine
Podcast
Why can’t we cure cancer?
Nearly 50,000 people will die from cancer in Australia this year. What does the future of treatment look like, and are funding and policy settings working for or against it?