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A doctor may recommend an electrocardiogram for patients who may be at risk of heart disease because of family history, smoking, overweight, diabetes or other conditions...
A colonoscopy can be used to look for cancer of the colon (bowel cancer) or colon polyps, which are growths on the lining of the colon...
Gestational diabetes is diabetes that occurs during pregnancy and usually disappears when the pregnancy is over...
Every newborn baby in Australia is offered a test for rare, but serious, medical conditions. The conditions tested for are phenylketonuria, hypothyroidism and cystic fibrosis. You can choose whether...
Maternal serum screening can indicate increased risk of abnormalities in the unborn child, but is not a diagnosis...
A predisposition to certain cancers can be inherited via altered genes...
The National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) offers kits for free to Australians between the ages of 50 and 74 years of age...
Prostate cancer can be treated in a variety of ways, so discuss treatment options with your doctor...
The aim of cancer screening is to find cancer in its early stages...
Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is a pregnancy test that checks the baby for some abnormalities...