• Headlines on health

  • By: SBS
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Headlines on health

By: SBS
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  • Summary

  • Follow the latest news about health and wellness, with this collection of reports and interviews from the SBS News team. Hear the story behind the headline.
    Copyright 2024, Special Broadcasting Services
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Episodes
  • INTERVIEW: What factors can lead to cognitive decline and dementia?

    INTERVIEW: What factors can lead to cognitive decline and dementia?
    Sep 16 2024
    It's Dementia Action week, and Alyssa Gamaldo-Roddy is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Institute for Engaged Aging at Clemson University in South Carolina in the United States. Her research focuses on identifying adverse and protective factors associated with cognitive functioning, particularly in populations at risk for Alzheimer’s and related dementia. She also discusses how aging has changed from generation to generation as information has become more readily available with the development of technology.
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    5 mins
  • Mobile phones get cancer all-clear

    Mobile phones get cancer all-clear
    Sep 4 2024
    There is no link between mobile phone use and brain and head cancers - that's according to a new Australian-led systematic review - commisioned by the World Health Organization. The researchers say the study provides the strongest evidence to date that radio waves from wireless technologies are not harmful to humans.
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    3 mins
  • Engineered stem cells breakthrough could save lives

    Engineered stem cells breakthrough could save lives
    Sep 3 2024
    Australian scientists have made a world-first breakthrough creating lab engineered blood stem cells that closely resemble those found in the human body. They say the discovery could one day put an end to the search for 'perfectly matched' bone marrow donors that are often needed to treat those with leukaemia serious and blood disorders.
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    3 mins
Physical Illness & Disease Hygiene & Healthy Living Politics & Government
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