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‘People’s Vaccine’ Or Bust, Oxfam Warns

CANBERRA, Australia — Failure to vaccinate the entire global population could cost each Australian more than AUD 1,300 ($992.76), as the economy stutters and mutant strains of coronavirus take hold, Oxfam has warned. Lyn Morgain, chief […]

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Report Plays Up Uber Eats Worker Benefits

CANBERRA, Australia — Uber Eats generated almost 60,000 jobs during the coronavirus pandemic last year with the average delivery driver earning more than AUD 20 ($15.27) an hour after costs. That’s according to a report commissioned […]

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What is prostate cancer?

    Cancer is a term that describes a collection of related diseases. Cancer occurs when some of the body’s cells divide continuously and begin to invade surrounding cells. Cancerous cells can start anywhere in the body and spread to localized regions and then to distant parts away from the site of origin. When cancer cells begin in the region of the prostate – a gland in the male reproductive system that produces and contains seminal fluid – it is called prostate cancer. […]