Listen back to our 9 July #livewellbewell radio show! We chat good financial habits for kids with Sally Thibault, Women’s Health Magazine reveal how much nutritional info we’re getting from Google, She Brisbane makes big life changes and Little Miss Organised chats to-do lists! Listen to the latest Live Well, Be Well radio podcast with…
A national study released this week shows many patients and GPs fail to recognise overweight and obesity, with many Australians incorrectly classified as a normal weight. The research, published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, found one in four overweight or obese patients did not consider themselves overweight or obese. One…
Cancer Council Queensland has welcomed the finding of an interstate Parliamentary Committee that there are no legal impediments to implementing a generational phase-out of cigarettes. The finding by a Tasmanian Parliamentary Committee has effectively cleared the way for the state to push ahead with laws banning the sale of tobacco to young people born after…
Cancer Council Queensland spokesperson Katie Clift shares her top tips to help you improve your wellbeing by switching off. Televisions, smartphones, computers, and tablets – screens consume our time from the moment we wake up, until the moment we turn out the lights. But is the digital world having a detrimental effect on our health?…
Listen back to our 2 July #livewellbewell radio show! Style Magazines joins host Katie Clift to share seven ways to save money, and how to avoid sabotaging your workouts! Finder.com.au reveal how addicted we are to our mobile phones, tweens2teen help us make the most of the school holidays & we check in on the…
Queensland data has found overdiagnosis has not been solely to blame for a sharp increase of thyroid cancer cases in Queensland since the early 1980s. Cases of thyroid cancer increased by 5.5 per cent per year for Queensland men and 6.1 per cent per year for Queensland women between 1982 and 2008, a significant rise.…
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Only about half of all eligible women in Queensland get regular pap smears – the second lowest rate in the country, new national figures show. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare issued the latest participation rates for the National Cervical Screening Program (2014/2015) today. The Queensland rate of participation for 2014/15 was just 54.5…
Queensland, it’s time to put down your drinks and go booze-free for the month of July in a show of support for people affected by cancer. Cancer Council Queensland has been named a beneficiary of Dry July in 2016, with funds raised supporting more than 26,000 Queenslanders diagnosed with cancer each year. Dry July takes…
in 2016, General Media Release, Risks.
One third of young mothers under 20 are still smoking in the first 20 weeks of their pregnancy, according to the latest national statistics from the AIHW. The AIHW’s Australia’s mothers and babies report found one in eight women who gave birth in 2013 smoked at some time during their pregnancy. Figures show Western Queensland…
Listen back to our 25 June #livewellbewell radio show! We chat the mental benefits of exercise with Sally Thibault, Women’s Health Magazine help us warm up our mood for winter, She Brisbane teaches us about staying imperfect and Little Miss Organised helps us find our keys… all day every day! Listen to the latest Live…
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