Our health articles
17 February 2025
By Dr Sarah Burns
Often termed a “silent killer”, there are challenges in improving ovarian cancer survival rates. Vague non-specific symptoms, a lack of screening tests and advanced disease at diagnosis all contribute to a poorer five-year survival outcome …
7 February 2025
By Jade Newnham
Dr Kuljit Singh believes social prescribing helps rural health communities to improve health outcomes and combat loneliness. She encourages rural doctors to learn more and look into how they can incorporate programs into their rural …
22 January 2025
By Jaide Vidafar
Jaide Vidafar explores the issues facing those in remote communities in the Torres Strait Islands. She shines a light on the healthcare gap and offers insights into what we could be doing to improve the …
11 November 2024
By Dr Sarah Burns
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women globally, with an estimated 666,000 new cases diagnosed in 2022. The good news is that it is treatable, if diagnosed early. …
4 October 2024
By Heart Digital
With over 20,000 Australians diagnosed with breast cancer every year, learning the signs and symptoms is very important. Sadly, people with cancer who live rurally and remotely have a poorer chance of survival than people …
30 September 2024
By Heart Digital
Loneliness can affect us all – but with the isolation and tyranny of distance that comes with living remotely – this can become overwhelming. Medical student, Ria Mathew has researched this epidemic and provides some …
26 September 2024
By Jaide Vidafar
Here we chat with Dr Cameron Downes, an orthopaedic spinal surgeon from Far North Queensland, to get his take on spinal health and what people living in rural areas can do to keep their backs …
25 September 2024
By Jade Newnham
Risky alcohol consumption increases the further you get from a city, with statistics at their highest in remote and very remote areas. We explore this trend further and look at the challenges, culture and how …
24 September 2024
By Jade Newnham
Rural Australians are three to five times more likely to develop dementia. Here we explore the challenge for those in rural communities, the early warning signs of dementia and why mental exercise could help lower …
