Health & wellbeing

Centre boost for village

Hilary Passamani, Susan Burns, Cliff Raynor and Jim Marlow try out some of the equipment in the gym. Picture: Marcelo Palacios d400252

RESIDENTS of a Canning Vale over 55s retirement village are raring to go in their new community centre. more »

New Measures

Health nutritionist Rebecca Fleming and dietitian Megan Hardy are on hand to help locals get fit. Picture: Matthew Poon

BENTLEY-ARMADALE’S Medicare Local is the first to begin a free flagship program to help people get fit and lose weight. more »

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 »

Youth health unit upgrade

Better youth care: Mental Health Minister Helen Morton and Commissioner for Children and Young People Michelle Scott. www.communitypix.com.au   d394954

A MENTAL health clinician says the $4.5 million upgrade at the State’s only in-patient adolescent mental health care centre will deliver better outcomes for youth. more »

Program keeps seniors fit

SENIOR City of Canning residents can start pumping iron and get fit at Cannington Leisureplex after the centre recently launched the Living Longer Living Stronger program. 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 »

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