Health

  • Technology extends health care

    COLAC Area Health’s urgent care centre is linking its medical staff with doctors and paramedics across Victoria.

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  • Businesses support palliative care

    COLAC and district businesses have thrown their support behind a bid for a new palliative care space at the city’s hospital.

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  • Algae saves woman’s ruined heart

    A REVOLUTIONARY experimental treatment using algae has repaired Rhonda Armstrong’s heart and given her a new lease on life.

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  • Injured teenager returns home

    A COLAC district junior footballer is home from hospital after suffering spinal injuries in a match at the weekend.

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  • Man waited 100 minutes for ambulance

    A COLAC district man waited more than an hour for an ambulance after falling from a horse at Bambra, north of Lorne.

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  • Sand rash leads to cancer diagnosis

    COLAC’S Janine Benson discovered she had breast cancer after a boogie boarding rash prompted her to visit a doctor.

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  • Cleaning up with goats’ milk

    COLAC’S Donna Manders says goat’s milk is taking over the world – one baa at a time.

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  • New cancer surgery saved farmer

    CANCER would have killed Colac’s Ian McMillan if the shadow on his lung had developed five years earlier.

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