Geelong Medical & Health Group News

May 31st World NO Tobacco Day 2025

May 22 2025

  This year’s theme is Bright Products. Dark intentions. Unmasking the Appeal Appealing flavours, but hidden dangers. Shameless manipulation of our children for industry profit. Every day, the tobacco and nicotine industries use carefully engineered products and deceptive tactics to hook a new generation of users and keep existing ones. Keep the industry out. An...


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Love Your Lungs

June 24 2024

Love Your Lungs Week is celebrated from June 21st to June 27th, aiming to raise awareness about lung health and how to maintain and protect our lungs. One way to show love to your lungs is by improving the quality of the air you breathe indoors. While it’s challenging to control outdoor air quality, you...


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Understanding and Managing Asthma

May 6 2024

This World Asthma Day, it’s crucial to shed light on this chronic respiratory condition that affects millions of Australians. Asthma is one of the most common long-term health conditions in Australia, with over 2.7 million people diagnosed. Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that affects the airways in the lungs. People with asthma have sensitive...


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5 Causes of Lung Cancer That Have Nothing to Do With Smoking

October 25 2018

  When someone who has smoked cigarettes their entire life winds up with lung cancer, it’s sad-but not exactly surprising. The harmful effects of smoking are well researched and documented, and cigarette smoking is by far the number one risk factor for the disease, accounting for 80 to 90 percent of lung cancers. What’s more,...


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