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16 July 2026
New Wall to honour those living long term with diabetes
Cairns woman Pamela McKay has lived with diabetes for more than 60 years and will be one of the local residents recognised on a new Honour Wall to be established at the Cairns Diabetes Centre.
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13 July 2026
High life: Cairns Hospital celebrates lepto treatment success
A new study has shown every patient treated at Cairns Hospital for a potentially deadly tropical disease has made a full recovery.
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10 March 2026
'Lizzie saved my life': Cairns patient’s emotional heart transplant journey
When Daniel Walters went to hospital with shortness of breath, he never imagined he was just months away from needing a new heart to survive.
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30 July 2025
'I was given a second chance at life': Rosa's lifesaving raffle
In a heart warming tale of family and selflessness, Cairns woman Rosa Duffy, facing kidney failure, organized a unique 'raffle' among her siblings to find a donor.
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