Geelong Medical & Health Group News

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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