Health

Lions Club To Host Health Seminar

The Kingaroy Lions Club will be hosting a free Women’s Health Seminar at the Kingaroy State High Assembly Hall from 7:30pm on Wednesday, November 13.

Arthritis Champions Honoured

Arthritis Champions Honoured

Three South Burnett residents have been honoured by the Arthritis Foundation for their dedication to helping local arthritis and osteoporosis sufferers.

Healthy Ears For A Healthy Start

Healthy Ears For A Healthy Start

It starts with a runny nose but can end with learning difficulties, behavioural problems and a lifetime of hardship if parents don’t ensure their children’s ears are healthy.

Seminar To Focus On Women’s Health

Seminar To Focus On Women’s Health

The Kingaroy Lions Club will be presenting a Women’s Health Seminar, featuring leading Brisbane gynaecologist Dr Philip Hall, in Kingaroy next week.

GP Faces February Hearing

GP Faces February Hearing

Kingaroy GP Isabelle Jonnson-Lear will face a hearing in February which could determine whether her medical registration will be reinstated.

Spots For Rural Docs Doubles

A $1.8 million boost and a redirection of scholarship funding will double the number of rural generalist training places in Queensland by 2016.

Laughter Is The Best Medicine

Laughter Is The Best Medicine

People of all ages and walks of life gathered at the Proston Library recently for the inaugural “Laughter Yoga” session presented by Laughter Yoga teacher and tutor Roslyn Melmeth

Horan ‘Hopeful’ About New Hospital

Horan ‘Hopeful’ About New Hospital

A new Kingaroy Hospital could be built on land beside the current building within just a few years.

Palliative Care Services ‘Improving’

Palliative Care Services ‘Improving’

South Burnett patients and families will benefit from greater co-operation and co-ordination of palliative care services in Murgon, Wondai and Cherbourg, the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Board said today.

Ergon Urges Customers To Register

Regional Queenslanders using equipment for confirmed life-threatening medical conditions are urged to ensure they are registered with Ergon Energy’s Life Support program before the onset of the storm and cyclone season.

South Burnett Is ‘Alarmingly’ Obese

South Burnett Is ‘Alarmingly’ Obese

The South Burnett, Darling Downs and South West Queensland population are fat … and getting fatter.

Spotlight On A Healthy Lifestyle

Spotlight On A Healthy Lifestyle

Too often a free breakfast in Kingaroy means a sausage sizzle … but at the South Burnett Health & Lifestyle Expo it meant fruit. And lots of it … apples, mandarins and bananas.

Fitness Classes Starting In Durong

The South Burnett Regional Council’s Healthy Communities program will be running weekly fitness classes in Durong from Wednesday, October 23, until Wednesday, November 20.

15pc Living In Poverty

15pc Living In Poverty

Many Queenslanders live in poverty. Could you live on a tin of food, a couple of pieces of fruit and a slice of bread a day?

Hospitals To Get Regular Legionella Tests

Hospitals To Get Regular Legionella Tests

The legionella scare in Queensland hospitals earlier this year has led to the release of a number of recommendations to decrease the risk of future outbreaks occurring.

Plan To Slash Dental Delays

Plan To Slash Dental Delays

A public / private partnership model being trialled in Inglewood to slash dental waiting times may be introduced to Kingaroy and Murgon.

Health Report Identifies
Good News And Challenges

Health Report Identifies<br> Good News And Challenges

The re-introduction of a rural generalist surgeon at Kingaroy Hospital has doubled the number of elective surgical procedures done in Kingaroy.

Record-Breaking Relay Raises $116,000

Record-Breaking Relay Raises $116,000

A record number of teams and a record amount of money raised … the organisers of the 2013 South Burnett Relay For Life held in Kingaroy at the weekend couldn’t be much happier.

A Recipe For Feeling Better

A Recipe For Feeling Better

The South Burnett’s first Depressed Cake Shop may have had some ‘sad” bikkies, cake that was feeling “blue” and quite a few “black dog” lollies, but it has had a happy ending … it was so successful there’s a good chance there’ll be more popping up next year.