by Sarah Allinson, The Conversation A healthy diet with plenty of variety can lower risk. Credit: Rawpixel.com/ Shutterstock Most of us don’t think about cancer when we’re in our 20s and 30s. But recent research has shown that people born after 1990 are more likely to develop cancer before the age of 50 than any...
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What to expect when coming off the pill, and five things to do before you do
by Phoebe Holdenson Kimura, The Conversation Regardless of how long you’ve been taking the pill, the synthetic hormones are cleared from the body within days. Unsplash/artem kovalev, CC BY “The pill” (the combined oral contraceptive pill) has been giving Australian women control over their reproductive health since the 1960s and remains the most commonly used method of contraception...
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Five things you need to know about: mRNA vaccine safety
In trials these vaccines have shown to be at least 94% effective at preventing people from falling ill with Covid-19. But how safe is this new technology? We spoke to Michel Goldman, a professor of immunology and founder of the I3h Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in healthcare at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium....