Those at greatest risk from unplanned pregnancy are often least able to access it; Study on 800 different lipids to check your metabolic risk and health profile; It's important to ask if someone's life will be improved by taking cancer drugs; Heart defects in kids may need surgery but new research considers exercise as a key to improving their life expectancy.

Abortion access, lipid profiling; quality of life and cancer drugs; exercise and kids' heart surgery

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Australia has a successful breast cancer screening program, but experts say it can (and should) be better. 

New research drives home the importance of treating type 2 diabetes as early as possible for lifelong benefits. 

An update on how COVID vaccines are faring with all the new variants circulating in the community. 

And we take a look at some of the advancements being made in transplant technology.

Life-saving changes that could detect breast cancers earlier

The top five things you can do to keep your mental health in check, plus an update on the virus everyone is talking about: bird flu.

Maintaining your mental fitness – and a new culprit for Alzheimer's disease?

Correcting the record on fructose, and new research offers some clues about whose allergies might desist as they grow up. 

Also, new insights from a vaccine complication, and the risk of catching a common virus during pregnancy.

The 'sweet poison' fructose myth, and outgrowing childhood allergies

How bird flu has (probably) gone from cows to humans, as well as the latest on psychedelics for depression and psychotropics in healthcare.

How much time you should spend sitting, standing, moving and sleeping for the optimal 24 hours. 

How sexuality might shorten your lifespan. And why the health effects of nanoplastics are so difficult to uncover.

Are cows giving us bird flu? And everything we (don't) know about nanoplastics

Researchers have found a possible link between iron and long-COVID

Each year the flu vaccine is reformulated to target the current strains of influenza A and B that are circulating globally — but what if it didn't need to be?

A new review of Health at Every Size shows that, at least when it comes to measures like cholesterol and blood pressure, it's not enough on its own.

One of the most common interventions for IBS is an elimination diet to try to identify a trigger. But that diet might carry its own risk – of triggering disordered eating – a new study warns.

While grief effects everyone differently, a small group of people can find themselves 'stuck' in intense grief – it's not depression, it's prolonged grief disorder, and it can be treated.

The Health Report mailbag features "stoolgazing" and when to collect your own samples… or not.

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Abortion access, lipid profiling; quality of life and cancer drugs; exercise and kids' heart surgery

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