A particularly valuable site is [url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/]ABC Radio National’s Health Report[/url] which you can search for the topic you are interested in.
Here is a sample output for a search on the term ‘Breast’:
Weight lifting and women at risk for breast cancer-related lymphoedema – Health Report – 4 April 2011
Summary: For many years women who had lymph nodes removed because of breast cancer have been advised not to engage in upper body exercise. Research from the US shows that a program of slowly progressive weight lifting did not increase the incidence of
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2011/3179913.htm – 25k – [ html ] – 4 Apr 2011
Stress mistakenly blamed for breast cancer – Health Report – 4 April 2011
Summary: Australian research shows that many women with breast cancer believe that stress is to be blamed for their condition.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2011/3179901.htm – 29k – [ html ] – 4 Apr 2011
Breast density and the risk of breast cancer – Health Report – 12 February 2007
Summary: A recent study has suggested that breast density is a risk for breast cancer. There is also a risk that mammography will not pick up a breast cancer the higher the density.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2007/1846495.htm – 15k – [ html ] – 12 Feb 2007
Breast cancer and chemicals – Health Report – 1 March 2010
Summary: At the recent conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Diego California scientists reported on their work investigating chemicals that increase the risk of breast cancer.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2010/2831089.htm – 23k – [ html ] – 1 Mar 2010
The effect of weight-lifting in the treatment of breast-cancer-related lymphoedema – Health Report – 19 October 2009
Summary: A large number of women who have lymph nodes removed after breast cancer surgery suffer from lymphoedema which causes swelling and discomfort in the arm and can be very debilitating. Researchers in the US have investigated whether weight-lifting
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2009/2715309.htm – 20k – [ html ] – 19 Oct 2009
Benign Breast Disease and the Risk of Breast Cancer – Health Report – 25 July 2005
Summary: Researchers in the U.S. studied a large group of women with benign breast disease to investigate their risk of getting breast cancer.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2005/1419480.htm – 21k – [ html ] – 25 Jul 2005
Vitamin D deficiency linked to diabetes in pregnancy – Health Report – 4 April 2011
Summary: Australian researchers have found a very strong association between low vitamin D levels and gestational diabetes.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2011/3181167.htm – 30k – [ html ] – 4 Apr 2011
Calculating how breast cancers will respond to tamoxifen – Health Report – 29 September 2008
Summary: Australian scientists have made a discovery which could help doctors decide which women with breast cancer will benefit from anti-oestrogen therapies and which will not.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2008/2374992.htm – 15k – [ html ] – 29 Sep 2008
Sexual function in women with breast cancer – Health Report – 26 November 2007
Summary: Australian researchers have studied an intervention to improve sexual function in women with breast cancer.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2007/2099340.htm – 13k – [ html ] – 26 Nov 2007
Budget cuts looming for medical research in Australia – Health Report – 4 April 2011
Summary: The health and medical research community is worried about the impact that this year’s budget cuts might have on the federal government’s funding of medical research.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2011/3179934.htm – 42k – [ html ] – 4 Apr 2011
Breast cancer prevention in women at high risk – Health Report – 4 August 2008
Summary: A large number of cases of breast cancer in women at high risk of the disease could be prevented if anti-oestrogen medications were used. Research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer in Melbourne has looked at this issue.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2008/2320385.htm – 23k – [ html ] – 4 Aug 2008
Breast cancer – Health Report – 8 June 2009
Summary: Today on the program: Breast density and the risk of getting breast cancer preventing or reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrence and the personal story of a carer who looked after her partner with the disease.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2009/2589013.htm – 43k – [ html ] – 8 Jun 2009
Stress and Breast Cancer – Health Report – 12 September 2005
Summary: Researchers in Denmark studied the effect of high levels of daily stress on breast cancer risk. They found that high levels of daily stress appear to result in a lower risk of developing breast cancer for the first time. But they also warn that high
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2005/1456755.htm – 17k – [ html ] – 12 Sep 2005
Health Report – 9 October 2006 – Is there a link between breast feeding and the intelligence of a child?
Summary: Researchers at the UK Medical Research Council’s and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow tried to find out if breast feeding has any effect on the intelligence of the baby.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2006/1759735.htm – 11k – [ html ] – 9 Oct 2006
Exercise and Breast Cancer – Health Report – 10 April 2006
Summary: Researchers suggest that physical activity can reduce the risk of women getting breast cancer. In this program Norman Swan talks to the scientist who was the first to show this relationship.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2006/1610198.htm – 26k – [ html ] – 10 Apr 2006
New research into bowel cancer and breast cancer – Health Report – 17 October 2005
Summary: Australian researchers have discovered a possible new test for bowel cancer and a new gene which raises the risk of breast cancer.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2005/1484540.htm – 17k – [ html ] – 17 Oct 2005
Reconstructive breast surgery after mastectomy – Health Report – 5 January 2009
Summary: Cosmetic breast surgery is booming. So why isn’t there a greater demand for reconstructive breast surgery when so many women are losing their breasts to cancer? There’s a silence around breast reconstruction following mastectomy that’s not helping
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2009/2438993.htm – 38k – [ html ] – 5 Jan 2009
Health Report – 27 October 2003 – Breast Cancer (A personal story and a look at the rate of breast reconstructions in Australia)
Summary: The story of personal trauma experienced by a woman who has been told to return for a repeat mammogram and why not many women take up the option of having breast reconstruction surgery after having had a mastectomy.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2003/975868.htm – 21k – [ html ] – 27 Oct 2003
Reconstructive breast surgery after mastectomy – Health Report – 18 February 2008
Summary: Cosmetic breast surgery is booming. So why isn’t there a greater demand for reconstructive breast surgery when so many women are losing their breasts to cancer? There’s a silence around breast reconstruction following mastectomy that’s not helping
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/2008/2161443.htm – 37k – [ html ] – 18 Feb 2008
Health Report – 21 July 1997 – Breast Cancer and Pesticides
Summary: Pesticides and breast cancer – could there be a link?
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/healthreport/stories/1997/205.htm – 13k – [ html ] – 21 Jul 1997
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