Health & Wellbeing

6 November 2025

Women’s new support hub

CABOOLTURE is now home to a new free walk-in Women and Girls Health Hub, with the official opening of the Wellspring Women and Girls Health Hub on October 24. The new hub provides health checks and screening, immunisations, social work support, educa...

6 November 2025

Local GP leads fight against melanoma

EVERY five hours, one Australian loses their life to melanoma – a statistic that Dr Aaron Lewis is determined to change. The long-time local GP has recently joined On Point Skin Cancer Clinic, which has just opened a new location in Morayfield, desig...

4 November 2025

Respect tested at Alkira

SENIOR executives from the beleaguered Respect aged care service met with dozens of family members and residents of the Toogoolawah Alkira home last Friday (October 31) following concerns raised over poor service. The meeting came a week after Federa...

2 June 2025

Rural doctors deliver heartfelt end-of-life care

Where access to specialist services is limited, it is often the RG who stands alongside patients and their families during life’s final chapter—providing not only expert clinical care, but continuity, compassion, and cultural understanding. ACRRM Pre...

31 May 2025

Park set to shine with $2.25M

Mayor Peter Flannery said that he was pleased to welcome people to Bribie Island’s first district level park thanks to the Cosmos Park upgrades. “We’re bringing new activities to Cosmos Park with a basketball half court, fitness equipment, dedicated ...

31 May 2025

New Alzheimer’s treatment

Developed by Eli Lilly, Kisunla is the first medicine approved in Australia that targets the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s by clearing the amyloid plaques that disrupt brain function. It is the first new Alzheimer’s treatment registered in Australi...

29 May 2025

Young Aussies still in aged care

Head of Policy, Communications and Systems Change at the Summer Foundation, Jessica Walker, said the data showed the downward trend in the number of younger people with disability entering residential aged care had slowed considerably in recent quart...

26 May 2025

Drug trial targets stubborn cholesterol

The clinical trial ‘BROADWAY’ tested a once-daily oral medication called Obicetrapib, and found it significantly lowered both LDL cholesterol and lipoprotein(a), two key contributors to cardiovascular disease. The BROADWAY phase 3 trial results were ...