Australia Health News API

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            "title": "Is screening reflecting the realities of multicultural Australia?",
            "description": "New GP-led research is investigating gestational diabetes and long-term health risks among women in Australia’s diverse communities.",
            "content": "Pregnancy is often described as a window into future health, but for many women, it may also be the first sign of lifelong cardiometabolic risk.\nThat is the focus of current research by GP Dr Ania Samarawickrama, whose PhD is examining gestational di... [3647 chars]",
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            "content": "A growing outbreak of meningococcal B and meningitis has killed two young people in the UK.\nFive new cases of meningitis have been found in Kent in south-east England in an outbreak the UK Health Security Agency has called \"unprecedented\".\nThe spread... [4404 chars]",
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            "title": "No evidence to support prescribing medicinal cannabis for anxiety, Lancet study finds",
            "description": "Connect. Collaborate. Grow",
            "content": "A landmark meta-analysis has failed to show that medicinal cannabis helps with anxiety, the second-most common indication for cannabis in Australia.\nAustralian and UK researchers have reviewed 54 studies published between 1980 and 2025 on the efficac... [487 chars]",
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