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MAY 2017

'Endometriosis has hurt my sex life. And my partner is allowed to say that.'
Olivia Newton-John shares she is fighting breast cancer for the second time.
The telltale signs your body isn't handling all that coffee you're drinking.
Doctors warn against the birth trend that could cause infection in newborn babies.
Melbourne boys become orphans after both of their parents die within weeks of each other.
'My best friend was on the brink of death. I had 8 minutes to keep her alive.'
Chell was a happy and healthy mum. Then a routine surgery "completely uprooted" her life.
A fertility expert on the reasons you might be struggling to fall pregnant.
Mum's warning after 'cosmetic surgery nightmare' stops her breastfeeding her baby.
"I watched her disintegrate." Mum recalls daughter's final plea in thunderstorm asthma.
'Never in our wildest dreams did we think such a terrible tragedy could happen to us.'
Georgia Love is preparing to face her first Mother's Day without her mum.
Kandi told her mum she felt "poisoned" after breast surgery. Months later she was dead.
Mum discovers daughter's heartbreaking Google search after offering to donate kidney.
Six days after she died, Wendy's husband was still sleeping with her body.
Charlotte's doctor told her to just have a 'spa day'. She died three weeks later.
Two mums, two stories, two diagnoses and one life-threatening cancer.
"My baby boy was born via C-section. But when he was handed to me, I jumped."
Everything you need to know before you undergo IVF.
A "monster" surgeon told this new mum he was 'saving her from cancer'. It was all a lie.
A single mother-of-three is fighting for life after she was attacked by a shark.
Princess Mary has a message every anti-vaxxer needs to hear.