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Each year Chronic Pain Australia, the national voice of people living with chronic pain, organises National Pain Week to champion the needs of the many Australians living with some form of chronic pain. People living with chronic pain often feel isolated by their pain. The aim of NPW 2021 is to remind friends, family and professionals that connection is key to addressing the social isolation that pain can create. Pain is an important signal that our body has been damaged in s

A highlight of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month is Red Apple Day (Wednesday, 16 June 2021) Bowel cancer claims the lives of 103 Australians every week (5,375 people a year). The good news is that bowel cancer is one of the most curable types of cancer if detected early. Early detection offers the best hope of reducing the number of Australians who die each year from bowel cancer. However, at the moment only about 40% of bowel cancers are detected early so we need to start becomin

Every year, May 31 is World No Tobacco Day. It highlights the health and additional risks associated with using tobacco. The World No Tobacco Day 2021 campaign aims to empower and support tobacco users on their journey to quit. The harms of tobacco use are well-established. Tobacco causes 8 million deaths every year and when the news came out that smokers were more likely to develop severe disease with COVID-19 compared to non-smokers, it triggered millions of smokers to want

National Heart Week is 3rd - 9th May 2021. Be sure to prioritise your heart health

Using the theme ‘Vaccines bring us closer’, World Immunization Week 2021 will urge greater engagement around immunization globally to promote the importance of vaccination in bringing people together, and improving the health and wellbeing of everyone, everywhere throughout life. World Immunisation Week – the worldwide campaign to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. It is celebrated every year in the last week of April – aims to promote

Using the theme ‘Vaccines bring us closer’, World Immunization Week 2021 will urge greater engagement around immunization globally to promote the importance of vaccination in bringing people together, and improving the health and wellbeing of everyone, everywhere throughout life. World Immunisation Week – the worldwide campaign to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. It is celebrated every year in the last week of April – aims to promote

Purple Day is a worldwide campaign dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of epilepsy. On 26 March each year, people are encouraged to wear purple to show their support of those living with epilepsy. Purple Day was founded in 2008, by nine-year-old Cassidy Megan of Nova Scotia, Canada, with the help of the Epilepsy Association of Nova Scotia (EANS). Cassidy chose the colour purple after the international colour for epilepsy, lavender. The lavender flower is also

Shingles is a viral infection caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox (varicella-zoster virus). Shingles can only develop in a person who has already had chickenpox (varicella). After an episode of chickenpox, the virus does not completely clear, and some particles lie dormant in nerve roots near the spinal cord. They cause no harm, or signs and symptoms, but can re-activate later to cause shingles (herpes zoster). If the varicella-zoster virus reactivates, it travels

Even people who are healthy and fit can get the flu. But some people are more fragile and therefore more likely to get the flu and develop complications. The National Immunisation Program (NIP) provides free annual influenza vaccinations from your GP for: · All individuals aged 65 years and over · All aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 6months up to 5 years and over 15 years · Pregnant women · Individuals aged 6 months and over with medical conditions predispos