A bushfire which destroyed a petrol station and reportedly damaged one home in Perth’s north has been downgraded.
Queensland is experiencing a spike in the number patients hospitalised with skin cancer. The rate of diagnosis tripled in the past five years, with a 177 per cent increase in patient admission in Queensland alone, according to new Medebank data.
Researchers in the state are poised to start human trials after a breakthrough immunotherapy cancer treatment was discovered. Queensland had the highest number of new skin cancer cases across the country, followed by Western Australia and New South Wales.
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