Looking to improve your diet? If you consider the kitchen as the heart of your home, you may want to think about how it affects your waistline! Kitchens are often rooms with multiple hats – not only are they a place to enjoy good food, it is often a family gathering spot, an entertainment centre,…

Join the charge this March to give cancer a run for its money Cancer Council is calling on Queenslanders to get charged up next month to help run down cancer! Registrations are now open for The March Charge – a month-long challenge encouraging Queenslanders to run or walk to improve their health and raise funds…

Queenslanders want smoking to go once and for all – calling for full bans around kids, at pubs and clubs, and in apartment blocks, as well as retail bans on minors selling tobacco products – a new study has found. Cancer Council’s Everyday Health Survey on Tobacco, released today (World Cancer Day), canvassed community views…

One new cancer case will be diagnosed every four minutes in Australia in 2017, a new Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report has found. Cancer in Australia 2017 estimates more than 134,000 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed nationally this year – almost three times the number diagnosed in 1982. The highest incidence…

Campsites, barbecues, picnic areas, boat ramps and visitor information centres in national parks are now smoke free, with new laws taking effect in Queensland today. From February 1 2017, smoking is banned in Queensland national parks within 10 metres of in-use campsites and any public facility, including toilet blocks, shelters and picnic tables. Cancer Council…