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Includes the podcast What's The Rash presented by Dr Norman Swan and Tegan Taylor.

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ADHD medication a lifesaver? Will cancer treatment damage your ovaries?

Three recent scientific papers looking at ADHD treatment and other health outcomes. Why no one knows what your cancer treatment will do to your ovaries.

Published: with Dr Norman Swan and Tegan Taylor

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Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds

Could ADHD treatment save your life?

Three scientific papers looking at ADHD: research into the risk of death from unnatural causes like accidents; medication for ADHD and potential cardio vascular disease; and the likelihood of developing dementia.

Published: with Dr Norman Swan and Tegan Taylor

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Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

Will cancer treatment damage your ovaries?

There’s a glaring lack of data about new cancer treatments, like immunotherapy, and their effects on women’s reproductive organs and fertility.

Published: with Tegan Taylor

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Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

Using the immune system's own cells to attack brain cancer

In this small study, brain cancer tumours shrank rapidly in the first few days when treated with chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, T cells injected into the fluid around the brain.

Published: with Dr Norman Swan

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Duration: 9 minutes 6 seconds

How often does the average person think about suicide?

Suicidal thoughts are more common than researchers expected in people who do not fit with conventional diagnoses of depression or other psychiatric disorders.

Published: with Dr Norman Swan

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Duration: 11 minutes 53 seconds
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