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Health

MAY 2019

7 arguments against getting your kids vaccinated - and why they're complete and utter bollocks.
Parents are attempting to 'cure' their child's Autism with industrial bleach. It's putting lives at risk.
While cleaning her son's room days before his 13th birthday, Alex found a suicide note.
"They're brittle and break." The $5 Kmart dog toy vets are urging owners to throw out.
Mark was strong, fit and bubbly. Two weeks ago he caught the flu. He died last Monday.
'I'm 15, I go to an all boys school, and I'm transitioning into a girl.'
Three children have now died. The choice to receive the flu vaccine isn’t just about you.
'I sent my poo to a gut health lab to evaluate my diet. This is what I found out.'
"I lived in a permanent state of panic": It took Emma two years to realise she had career burnout.
"It's just period pain." The everyday battles of women living with an invisible illness.
Abortion in Australia, explained: from the law in each state, to how much it costs.
"Tampons take your virginity." Women share the dumbest things men have said about periods.
"Earwax on cold sores and menstrual blood for anxiety": Medicine or Myth is eye-opening.
"It doesn't happen when sitting": We just found out men like to sit while they pee. Wait, what?
Catherine Hamlin has seen firsthand what happens when children give birth.
'I'm 25 and I've been diagnosed with cancer twice. These are the 5 things I've learnt.'
"A real life version of The Handmaid's Tale": Why everyone is talking about US abortion laws.
"'It's just anxiety': How misdiagnosed endometriosis almost killed me."
"There were no signs". At 22, Hayleigh's brother took his own life.
"I had an abortion when I was 15": The celebrities coming out with their abortion stories.
"I was 14." 5 women talk about how an abortion changed their life.
Her age, her childhood, her relationship: Belle Gibson lied about far more than her health.
Please don’t use the words ‘cure’ and ‘essential oils’ in the same sentence.
"I didn’t want to look at myself": Ella was in Year 12 when a severe case of eczema spread across her face.
"I took a five-minute 'drinking audit' to see if I drink too much. I got rated 'risky'."
12 years ago, Christina Applegate had a double mastectomy. She still thinks about it every day.
'My family was terrified that I would die.' How I recovered from a drug addiction at 18.
Now the truth about Aperol Spritz is out, let's acknowledge other foods we pretend to love.
A few things to know about the "Health Australia Party" before you vote.
PSA: Australia, this new 'poo-litical' party wants your vote.
"I wouldn't be in the industry if I didn't love my cows": The reality of working on a dairy farm.
"I felt like someone had told me my baby had died." Why it matters how doctors deliver a diagnosis.
'Six little birth marks' on nine-week-old baby Emme were a sign of a deadly condition.
The Melbourne parents who lost a phone full of photos of their daughter, days before she died, have been targeted in a second hoax.
Both of Stephanie's children have autism. But their diagnoses were starkly different.