ACT Health’s Canberra Hospital is the region’s major public hospital and a teaching hospital of the Australian National University Medical School. Canberra Hospital provides specialist and acute care to more than 500,000 people.
Endometriosis can cause a number of severe symptoms, including period pain. But painful periods alone aren’t a surefire indicator of endometriosis. Here’s what else to look out for.
When George Michael passed away last year news reports all over the world announced the cause as heart failure. It’s unlikely this really was the cause.
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