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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...
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...
Maternal serum screening can indicate increased risk of abnormalities in the unborn child, but is not a diagnosis...
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...
You can freeze your eggs for medical reasons or for reasons that are more to do with your life circumstances...
Barium tests are used to examine conditions of the digestive tract such as reflux, narrowing or ulceration...
Gestational diabetes is diabetes that occurs during pregnancy and usually disappears when the pregnancy is over...