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Reducing risk factors will improve the health of Victorians more than developing cures for diseases.

You can dramatically reduce your risk of early death by making a few simple lifestyle changes.

Obesity surgery is an effective, durable, evidence-based treatment for severe obesity and its associated health problems.

Tay-Sachs disease is a serious genetic disorder common in Ashkenazi Jews and French-Canadians.

Leukodystrophy refers to a group of inherited disorders that affect the white matter of the brain, which causes loss of normal brain functions.

There are a number of significant health and medical issues that are more common in people with Down syndrome.

A lack of health awareness and an unwillingness to adopt a healthier lifestyle puts men at a health disadvantage.

Pulmonary hypertension is high blood pressure on the lungs.

A child with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 rarely lives beyond three years of age.

Careful prescribing of antibiotics will minimise the emergence of antimicrobial resistant strains of bacteria.