Australia Health News API

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            "title": "Childhood cancer survivor vowing to live 'life to the fullest' after heart transplant",
            "description": "After overcoming cancer as a child, scans revealed her heart was \"working under half of what it should\".",
            "content": "Chemotherapy helped save Sienna Howkins's life as a four-year-old, but it damaged her heart so much, she needed a heart transplant as a teenager.\nThe 20-year-old, who received a donor heart a year ago, is studying to be a nurse, inspired by those who... [5478 chars]",
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            "description": "Australian scientists may soon be able to grow models of human spinal cords from live cells in a new effort to understand a fatal disease dubbed ‘The Beast’.",
            "content": "Sudden weakness at the gym, muscle cramps and twitches affecting only his arms were the first signs for Mike O’Hehir that something was wrong.\nHis failing body came as a shock to the former marathon runner, hiker and Sydney father-of-two, then in his... [3361 chars]",
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            "title": "The gift of a quilt brings a smile to the face of cancer sufferer",
            "description": "WA quilting group is spreading love through quilts to sufferers of a range of cancers right around Australia.",
            "content": "The first quilt was given to Gillian Ashworth (left), York, with Comfort Quilts Against Cancer's Bronwyn Dunn. Picture supplied.\nLosing her best friend to the complications of breast cancer in 2011, spurred York local Bronwyn Dunn to start a unique c... [5083 chars]",
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