Health

  • Call for Otways trial to grow medical cannabis

    OTWAYS farmers could develop Victoria’s version of Tasmania’s poppy industry after the State Government’s decision to legalise medical marijuana cultivation.

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  • Cancer awareness fundraiser in honour of friend

    FRIENDS and family have will gather next month to celebrate the life of a Colac woman and raise awareness of the disease that took her life.

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  • Traffic crash injures student

    A COLAC district girl is in a Melbourne hospital after a car hit her as she crossed a road to catch a school bus on the final day of term three.

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  • Torres Strait posting inspires Colac nurse

    SIX WEEKS as one of the only nurses in a remote island community have awakened a Colac woman to “Third World” diseases and conditions within Australia.

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  • Good Samaritan comes to aid of boy impaled on handlebar

    A COLAC boy has cancelled his Christmas wish for a bike after an accident left him with a bike handle impaled 10 centimetres into his groin.

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  • Baby’s homecoming after surgery a relief for parents

    COLAC’S Josh Goonan admits there were times when he and wife Rhiannon thought they might never bring their son Noah home.

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  • Quick-thinking employee save’s boss’s life

    COLAC businessman Greg Allan says he is “probably the luckiest bloke in Colac” after leaving hospital only six weeks after a major heart attack and coma.

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  • Clinic tackles health concerns

    IRREWARRA-BEEAC football club president Stuart Nelson is encouraging people between the age of 40 and 70 to get a health check.

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