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GPs & urologists ‘more closely aligned than ever’ on prostate cancer screening

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By Ruby Prosser Scully Verified
| Healthed
GPs are now asked to start a conversation about PSA testing in all male patients aged 50-69 years, as well as higher-risk 45-year-olds. Moreover, from age 45 any man who requests a PSA should be offered one regardless of risk, according to the guideline, which was endorsed by the NHMRC.
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Food as medicine for TB recovery

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By Ruby Prosser Scully Verified
| Rotary International Verified
At a clinic in the city of Coimbatore in southern India on a recent afternoon, a 29-year-old man with tuberculosis comes in for his medication and receives something extra: a small white tub of powder. It’s a nutritional protein supplement, one that’s vitally important, as malnutrition is closely linked to the lung disease. The man is severely underweight at just 38 kilograms (84 pounds) with a dangerously low body mass index.
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To catch a killer parasite

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By Ruby Prosser Scully Verified
| Rotary International Verified
At first it just seemed like a bad flu. The illness struck Danielle Stanisic while she was in New York for a research gig, her first time living away from home in Australia. It was her lab mates, though, who grew alarmed and insisted she get tested. It turned out Stanisic, who had traveled to Papua New Guinea six months earlier, had malaria. The next week in the hospital was a blur of suffering, but looking back 20 years later, Stanisic’s overriding feeling about the ordeal is how lucky she was.
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