Health & wellbeing

Sign up for vaccine trial

CHILDREN and young adults are sought for a vaccination trial in Perth. more »

Enneagram helps find emotional truth

Fullness of Life Centre directors, from left, Stephen Truscott and Celia Joyce. Photographer: Marcus Whisson

A CATHOLIC priest and a trained counsellor in Nedlands have joined forces for the past 25 years to help people gain insight into themselves and others. more »

Go purple for epilepsy

Hairdressers Pip Travia,Katie Williams,Kendal De Graaf,Rachel Diaz and Amy Parkella go purple.

WITH her daughter diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of eight, Kendal de Graaf knows first hand just how much a diagnosis can change a family. more »

Ban gets youth support

THE move towards banning smoking in Forrest Place and the Hay and Murray Street Malls is “strongly supported by young people,” according to 2012 Young Western Australian of the year Holly Ransom. more »

Cancer patients embrace exercise

Sandra Pallier found the Cancer Council’s Life Now exercise classes a great benefit as she battles breast cancer.

“IT was great to go to a class where people understood what it was like to go through cancer. There was a bond between us because of what we’d been through.” more »

Healthy lifestyles promoted

Beat it - Live Longer! participants with Trench Health and Fitness personal trainer Ellie Williams and co-ordinator Sev Akdeniz, second from right.

LANGFORD Aboriginal Association has hired a Curtin University graduate to run a new health program, funded by a federal grant. more »

Mock-up patient rooms unveiled

One of the mock-up rooms.

MOCK-UPS of rooms that will be in the new children’s hospital in Nedlands have been created at Princess Margaret Hospital to identify layout or access problems. more »

Health plan from inside to outside

Aboriginal Health Unit workers Donny and Priscilla.

THE Aboriginal Health Unit has launched a ‘groundbreaking’ program designed to improve the health and wellbeing of indigenous people released from prison. more »

Transfer car donated

Renal nurse Lynne Blazey, Mandurah Toyota managing director Steve Butler and Peel Health Campus managing director Neale Fong.

MANDURAH Toyota managing director Steve Butler overheard by chance that Peel Health Campus’s renal unit was in need of a new patient transfer vehicle. more »

Heart of the matter

Director of cardiology Jenny Deague, with Joondalup Health Campus boss Kempton Cowan (left), explains the new catheter lab to visitors.

HEART treatment services are stepping up at Joondalup Health Campus with the launch of its first catheter lab, as well as plans for 24-hour emergency heart attack surgery. more »

Rural trip an eye-opener

Jasmin Grajzman meets Des Smith, one of the many indigenous people suffering from kidney disease.

NOTRE Dame medical student Jasmin Grajzman was inspired when she took part in the Go Rural “City to Centre” experience last month. more »

Doctor practises humour too

Clark Maul is ‘just what the doctor ordered’ and is currently an intern at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Picture: Andrew Ritchie www.communitypix.com.au   d391726

PHYSICIAN Clark Maul knows first-hand that laughter truly is the best medicine. more »

Hospital bed boost for world’s poorest

Mercy Hospital

HOSPITAL beds from a Mt Lawley facility will help improve conditions for people undergoing medical treatment in Africa. more »

Blue bid to beat blues

Pip Brennan, of Community Midwifery WA, with Noomi Smith (20 months), Jenny Kostner with sons Leo and Ethan, Linda Wilshusen, of Fremantle Women’s Health Centre, with Albert Smith (four months), Julia Jones, of Newborn Mothers, and Adele James, of From the Heart, with Harriet Smith (2).

AS part of Postnatal Depression Awareness Week, Buster the Fun Bus visited sites in the Fremantle area to give mothers a little bit of pampering. more »

Indigenous health model clearly a caring winner

Kim Snowball, Doreen Turvey, Maureen Unsworth, Sue Jetta, Jo Scheepers, Jenni Collard and Kim Hames.

A CULTURALLY specific program providing foot care and diabetes education to Aboriginal people has won a WA Health award. more »

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