Health Awareness
TIME TO TALK ABOUT WOMEN’S HEARTS
Did you know that an estimated 1.2 million Australians are living with some form of cardiac, stroke or vascular disease. And that tragically, one woman loses their life every hour to heart disease – a disease which is 80 per cent preventable? Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD) represented the second leading cause of death in Australian…
Read MoreTIME TO SLIP, SLOP, SLAP, SEEK & SLIDE
On Saturday, December 9, 2023, Sydney sweltered through a heatwave that saw our airport reach 43.5 degrees Celsius – a December record. Sydney was not alone, with other NSW locations climbing beyond 40C that day. These high temperatures are set to continue, with experts calling for all Aussies to brace themselves for scorching temperatures up…
Read MoreAussies need a nationally consistent vaccination approach
Following a decline in vaccination rates following the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report is calling for a united, consistent, national approach to vaccinate Australians following a decline in vaccination rates after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Grattan Institute’s ‘A fair shot: How to close the vaccination gap’ report suggests taking…
Read MoreCelebrating 30 years of the ‘JDRF One Walk’ for Type 1 diabetes
This October 2023, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation (JDRF) is celebrating 30 years of running the JDRF local One Walk. Striving to achieve a world free from Type 1 diabetes (T1D) courtesy of crucial, life-changing research, the JDRF One Walk event provides invaluable support to the T1D community, including the more than 130,000 Australians living with…
Read MoreToday is World Tuberculosis Day
On this day (Friday, March 24) in 1882, Dr. Robert Koch discovered the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), pioneering the path towards a TB-free world. Nowadays, we band together every year on this date to raise awareness of TB, the leading cause of death by infectious disease worldwide. In 2021 alone, TB infected 10.6 million…
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