Health & Wellbeing

11 November 2025

No sleep leads to dirty minds

By CPAP Direct BY design, your brain washes itself every night…literally! Scientists have recently discovered the “glymphatic system,” a hidden plumbing network that clears away waste and protein plaques from between brain cells while we sleep. Think...

10 November 2025

QLD adults will be able to get ADHD diagnosis from GP

QUEENSLAND will be Australia’s first state to enable GPs to initiate, adjust and continue prescriptions for ADHD medications for adults from December 1, 2025. The changes to the Medicines and Poisons (Medicines) Regulation 2021 will make ADHD care an...

8 November 2025

Youth support program changing students’ lives

A SCHOOL-based youth support program is helping students in Moreton Bay stay engaged in their education by providing a range of vital services and targeted support. Patience Thornton-Whiu, who is employed by Lutheran Services’ Intercept Youth and Fam...

7 November 2025

Kilcoy Cancer Support Group helps locals in need

The Kilcoy Cancer Support Group (Breast and the Rest) is inviting locals to join their not-for-profit volunteer organisation, which provides practical support to local residents diagnosed with cancer. The group offers a range of free services to thos...

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...

30 September 2025

Doctor’s finally calling

DESPERATELY needed new doctors will not start at Kilcoy Hospital until January 2026, nearly a year after a doctors’ shortage at the local ER was exposed by The Sentinel. Metro North Health said that additional medical officers had been “successfully ...

3 June 2025

Paging rural doctors

THE State Government has announced a major multimillion-dollar incentive program to support and strengthen general practice in Queensland throughout 2025, particularly in rural and remote areas. This comes after extensive reporting by The Sentinel on...