Blog and Fact sheets
How To Prepare Your Child For School During The Flu Season
Just in case you didn’t know, flu is actually more dangerous than the common cold, especially for children. More often it leads to serious health conditions such as pneumonia or bacterial infections. During the flu season, many children in Australia end up...
Ways To Stay Safe During The Flu Season
With a couple of precautionary measures, you can stay clear of stuffed noses and cold chills. For a while at least. Top medical centres in Sydney are aware of this, which is why you should also get in touch with one if you need more advice on how you and your family...
How To Take Care Of A Family Member With Flu-like Symptoms
You might have dodged the flu this season but this does not mean that you are out of the woods yet. You might find yourself taking care of a loved one who wasn’t as lucky as you are. Certain steps will have to be taken to help speed up recovery of the patient and to...
Close Contact Vs Casual Contact: What Is The Difference?
The emergence and subsequent spread of Coronavirus in Australia and globally has affected the way of life as we knew it. COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Already declared a...
How To Get Tested For Coronavirus
Several months later, coronavirus (COVID-19) remains a big challenge for many countries and the entire planet. Death numbers and new cases continue to rise in some countries. Even though there’s no vaccine for it yet, health experts continue to work around the clock...
How And When To Self-isolate During Coronavirus Pandemic
Since the emergence of the coronavirus disease in Wuhan, China, the world has seen over 1,430,453 infections and more than 82,133 deaths. Named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), this coronavirus affects an infected person’s respiratory system with...
What Social Distancing is and Why You Need to Practice It
Since the wake of COVID-19, the expression ‘social distancing’ has been popular and in constant use. From advice by the World Health Organization (WHO) to calls by different medical professionals worldwide, we have been left with no option but to learn and adhere to...
Answering the Biggest Questions about CoronaVirus
At the start of the year, health officials in Wuhan China reported that a number of people had been diagnosed with a dry cough, fever and fatigue. A good number of cases went on to develop viral pneumonia, with most of these cases turning fatal. After an analysis of...
What Your Food Says About Your Cholesterol Levels
You probably already know that too much blood cholesterol is bad for your health. That alone explains why you should care a lot about your cholesterol level. Not too long ago, people shunned cholesterol-rich diets like eggs because they were believed to put one at...
5 Tips For Women To Keep Their Reproductive Health Concerns At Bay
Don't we all want complete physical well-being in matters related to our reproductive system? We all do, right? But that's not all. Good reproductive health extends to complete mental and social well-being too. That's how the World Health Organisation (WHO) sees it. ...
Cardiac Rehabilitation – Rejuvenating Your Heart After Heart Surgery or Attack
After a cardiac event (heart attack, heart surgery, or heart diseases), you will require proper recovery. Cardiac rehabilitation (cardiac rehab) is a medically supervised outpatient program that has been designed to offer the help needed to reverse the limitations...
Coronavirus VS Flu? What’s The Risk in Australia?
Earlier this year, there was an outbreak of the deadly Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wuhan, a city in China. So far, the majority of the cases - thousands of them - continue to be reported in China. 28 countries have been affected, including Australia, where as of...