Health & wellbeing

Prostate tests now available closer to home

Clinical nurse Sue McBride, senior anaesthetic technician Stuart Marsden and endoscopy co-ordinator Maureen Duncan. Picture: Marcelo Palacios www.communitypix.com.au   d339404

ARMADALE-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital can now offer men prostate ultrasounds and biopsies closer to home, thanks to new equipment worth $97,000 that will save men having to travel to other hospitals for tests. more »

Cancer patients work out way to vitality

Gym beam...exercise physiologist Kristy Maples (right) enjoys her session with Life Now participant Gaye Quinlivan.

A GYM-based exercise program working to boost the vitality of cancer sufferers will kick off in Beechboro next month. more »

Emerson inspires all

Courage: Emerson with his dog Stella.

EMERSON Lievense is determined to turn his living nightmare with a rare form of cancer into a story of inspiration for many. more »

Fair to raise awareness of spina bifida

Bryan Stitfall will be displaying his audio show car at the Giant Fair at Whiteman Park. With him are Ryan and Sandra O

A GIANT fair at Whiteman Park on September 5 aims to help raise awareness of neural tube defect spina bifida. more »

Pilot palliative scheme

Bethesda Hospital clinical nurse manager Glenys Thomas. Picture: Will Russell www.communitypix.com.au   d338484

BETHESDA Hospital in Claremont has been chosen by the State Government to pilot a Palliative Ambulatory Service for the north metropolitan area. more »

Indicator for mental health

Professor Andrew Page and Dr Madeleine Hope with the ‘mental health thermometer’.  Picture: Andrew Ritchie    d337540

AN easy-to-use computer system dubbed the “mental health thermometer” is helping identify mentally ill patients who could be at risk of suicide and self-harm. more »

More ammo for Alzheimer’s war

Bill Marmion MLA watches with medical imaging technician Chris Wood as research patient John Pauley is tested. Picture: Will Russell www.communitypix.com.au   d337893

EARLY detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s will be boosted with more than $2 million of State Government funding announced for research last week. more »

Indigenous research model on the improve

Glenn Pearson.

THE Subiaco-based Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has received more than $2.5 million to develop new ways of improving the health and wellbeing of WA Aboriginal families. more »

Care boost for babies and mums

Edna Moss and grand-daughter Akasha Lee Moss with midwife Chantelle Dunsire.

MORE babies will receive care closer to home thanks to the opening of a special neonatal nursery in Armadale. more »

Helping mums conquer PND

From the Heart’s Judith |Barrett-Lennard. d337258

LOCAL mothers suffering peri-natal anxiety and depression (PND) are being urged to access Subiaco support group From the Heart. more »

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