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The future of medicine is not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ – July 8, 2016
Research and Markets, a world-renowned market research report hub, recently released their new Global DNA Sequencing Products Market 2016-2020 report that identified personalised medicine and global DNA sequencing products as the next big trend in medical rese arch. According to the report, DNA sequencing technology can be applied in diagnostics, drug and biomarker discovery, agriculture,…
Read MoreBelinda, 40: Forensic scientist, keen cyclist & CIA trial patient recovering from breast cancer, PERTH
The life of happily married forensic scientist and avid cyclist, Belinda, 40, Perth was turned upside down when she received a diagnosis of stage two breast cancer on October 13, 2015. The self-described “stoic, upbeat, positive person” initially noticed a distortion of her left breast in September, 2015 while rehabilitating from a shoulder injury. She…
Read MoreStephanie, 42, Pneumonia takes heavy toll on marketer & mother-of-two, SYDNEY
In July 2013, having just started a new role, then 39-year-old Sydney-based professional marketeer and mother-of-two, Stephanie, took ill. Plagued by a productive cough, fever and overwhelming exhaustion for weeks on end, Stephanie dangerously chose to soldier-on. Until one day, when she pulled up to the curb to collect her children from school, stepped out…
Read MoreLizzy, 32, Occupational therapist who survived a serious episode of pneumonia, COFFS HARBOUR
In 2012, while completing her final year of study to become an Occupational Therapist at Plymouth University, UK, Elizabeth, then 28, contracted Swine flu, which soon developed into a severe episode of pneumonia. Elizabeth became unwell after attending a New Year’s Eve party, and spent the first week of January, 2012, coughing severely and vomiting.…
Read MoreJodie, 50, Palliative care nurse & mother-to-three living with cancer, who survived two severe episodes of pneumonia, Mulwala, VICTORIA
Palliative care nurse and mother-to-three, Jodie, 50, Mulwala, regional Victoria, survived two severe episodes of pneumococcal pneumonia, before being diagnosed with stage three lung cancer in March, 2015. When relocating from Melbourne to regional Victoria in 2011 for a country lifestyle, the occasional smoker felt relatively well. However, three years later, in early August 2014,…
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