Category: Men’s Health

Ash strides to fundraising goal, and gets a little extra help

BRHS Prostate Cancer specialist Nurse Ashley Leach raised more than $1,600 by walking 72km during Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and recently received a generous top-up from the St Mary’s Op Shop in Bairnsdale. St Mary’s Op Shop has donated a further $1,000 to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia,

BRHS gets to the heart of the matter with new program

As the old saying goes, prevention is better than cure – and that’s precisely the aim of a new program at Bairnsdale Regional Health Service to address heart attacks and heart disease before they occur. The program, Healthy Hearts, which is funded by the Gippsland Primary Health Network, works

Adrian’s heart is in masters football

Adrian Morgan will play among the cream of Australia’s veteran footballers when he represents Vic Country at the AFL Masters National Carnival in Adelaide from this weekend. It’s a remarkable achievement given that he survived a near-fatal cardiac arrest at his workplace, Bairnsdale Regional Health Service, just 13 months