NRGPN Relaunches MyChoice
The NRGPN has relaunched its MyChoice package for general practitioners managing terminal care patients. The package focuses on the needs of patients and their carers and recommends a whole of practice approach.
Details can be found at the NRGPN's website supporting the North Coast Integrated Care Collaborative.
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- Written by: David Guest
UCRH head leaving after ‘best-ever’ year
Calling 2015 the best of the seven years spent as Director of the University Centre for Rural Health North Coast, Professor Lesley Barclay AO has announced she will step down from the position at the end of January 2016.
According to Prof Barclay, the past 12 months was the time when all the hopes and plans she held for The University of Sydney-backed organization came together. These included the important goal of consolidating a regional university department of rural health that works closely with the Northern NSW Local Health District to make a real difference in the quality of health care in the Northern Rivers.
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Obesity in women – risk factors and how weight loss surgery improves survival
Over the last two decades the rates of obese and overweight women in Australia has doubled. The NHMRC conducted a survey in 2007/2008 (published 2010) revealing that 30.9% of the female Australian population were overweight (BMI 25-30 kg/m2) and 24% were obese (BMI> 30 kg/m2). The metabolic effects of excess adipose tissue contributed to ill health independent of the increased fatty tissue itself.
The role of adipose tissue is to produce various hormones (e.g. Leptin, Resisitin) and cytocines (e.g. tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-6) which have the ability to interact with many organ systems. Excess adipose tissue affects these usually helpful intercellular messengers and contributes significantly to the development of chronic diseases, affecting health and well being.
Obesity affects men and women differently, with women having the higher risk for some of the diseases listed below. In addition, they have the burden of illnesses specific to obese females.
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- Written by: Assoc Prof Harald Puhalla, MD, FRACS, (Sponsored Article)
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David Lane, you’ve done it again
Story & photo - Robin Osborne
Well known Northern Rivers painter David Lane has maintained a tradition now lasting 35 years and has opened the studio doors to his annual pre-Christmas exhibition of new works.
The space is part of the Tintenbar property where he and wife Maureen [a health service executive and former Ballina Shire councillor] have raised a family and created a garden from heaven.
David’s distinctive work graces the walls of many local homes and businesses, including the professional practices of doctors, lawyers and accountants. His bold, unmistakable renderings of the area’s beaches, cliffs, rock formations, and rainforests never fail to get admiring attention.
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Lismore to get new art gallery
The City of Lismore will get its long-awaited new art gallery as part of the ‘Lismore Quadrangle’ project that has received federal funding worth $2.85 million.
The grant through the Australian Government’s Stronger Regions Fund was announced by the federal MP for Page Kevin Hogan, and welcomed by Lismore Mayor Jenny Dowell.
Cr Dowell said Council’s contribution would be funded by $120,000 from the Lismore Quadrangle Pledge Campaign, $300,000 from the sale of the existing building, $126,800 in other public donations, a $110,000 Arts NSW grant, and $500,000 donated by a private foundation.
The Quadrangle, which includes the present Northern Rivers Conservatorium and Lismore branch of the Richmond Tweed Regional Library, is one of five projects on the Northern Rivers that will share in more than $12 million in funding.
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