Being a mum is hard enough, even harder for Qld mums and other top stories.

• Being a mum is hard enough, even harder for Qld mums

  

  QUEENSLAND is the toughest state in Australia to be a mum, while the ACT is the best, a report has shown. A report released on Sunday from Save the Children Australia showed where it was better to be a mother, using a ranking based on indicators including maternal and child health, education opportunities, earning potential and relative social disadvantage. In the inaugural State of Australia's Mothers report, the ACT topped the ranking with a score of 91.4%, followed by Western Australi..

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• Baby picked with IVF screening born in UK

  

  Baby picked with IVF screening born in UKThe first baby born in the UK using a pioneering fertility screening treatment that could help IVF treatment be more effective is now a healthy four-month-old boy.Biagio Russo was born to Ewa Wybacz, 36, and Sergio Russo, 42, after a course of IVF which used "next-generation sequencing".The process allows doctors to easily and cheaply choose the embryos which have the strongest chance of growing into healthy babies and has "huge potential" for improving f..

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• Covert eyes on Vic's illegal solariums

  

  Victoria is going after rogue solarium operators in an undercover surveillance operation that has already landed several people before the courts.A year and a half after solarium businesses were banned in the state, people who still own tanning beds continue to lure customers, Health Minister Jill Hennessy says.It is not illegal to have a tanning bed but it is to solicit customers.To soften the blow to solarium businesses and remove beds from the market, the state government offered a buy-back s..

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• NSW Government applies for medicinal cannabis cultivation licence

  

  NSW Government applies for medicinal cannabis cultivation licence By Lisa Herbert and Kerrin Thomas Updated May 09, 2016 12:48:31 The New South Wales Government has applied for a licence to grow cannabis for medical research trials.Minister for Primary Industries Niall Blair said the state's cultivation licence application was lodged with the Federal Government last week.Earlier this year, the Federal Parliament passed legislation to make the cultivation of medic..

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• Planned Parenthood Weighs In On Transgender Debate

  

  A national debate over transgender rights is raging on, and now Planned Parenthood is weighing in. Some Planned Parenthood offices across the country are promoting prescriptions for hormone therapy and other services for transgender people. Planned Parenthood’s services are aimed at “transgender people and people at various places on the spectrum of gender identity and expression,” according to a transgender services web page for Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes in New York. When..

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• Is My Baby Imitating Me? Study Questions Whether Newborns Actually Mimic People Around Them

  

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