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11 September 2026
Diabetes doc receives lifetime achievement award
A Cairns Hospital specialist has received a lifetime achievement award for his work in caring and treating people diagnosed with diabetes.
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03 September 2026
Rare double delight: Two sets of twins born across different days at Cairns Hospital
Two Far North Queensland women each welcomed twins with different birth dates during an extraordinary four-day stretch at Cairns Hospital, where nine sets of twins arrived in August alone.
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06 March 2026
‘It nearly cost me a leg’: Patient’s lengthy battle with dangerous bacteria after driveway clean
A simple act of clearing weeds from her driveway after heavy rain left a Cairns woman fighting for her life with severe melioidosis, during the region's worst-ever outbreak of the dangerous bacterial disease.
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28 November 2025
‘Medical science has given me my life back’: Patient’s breath of fresh air after clinical trial
A Cairns grandmother with a chronic lung condition is breathing better for the first time in decades after being involved in new medical research at Cairns Hospital.
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