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A seven-day trek is setting off across Costa Rica this Friday to raise money for Hunter research into premature births.

The Hunter's being urged to consider signing up as an organ and tissue donor, this Donate Life Week.

Newcastle researchers have been awarded $595,000 by the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation to continue their work into early detection methods of the disease.

A pain-free diabetes test developed at the University of Newcastle is set to change millions of lives around the world, after receiving $6 million in funding from the Federal Government to help get the product to market.

Concerns about ambulance shortages have been raised after an elderly nursing home patient had to wait six hours for paramedics to arrive after suffering a broken hip.