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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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13 February 2026
Melio mission to hit local shopping centres, markets
Health officials will hit shopping centres, markets, medical clinics and pharmacies to spread the word about melioidosis to help Far North Queenslanders ‘stay safe from Melio’.
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12 September 2025
Melioidosis outbreak findings unveiled at Research Symposium
A record-breaking melioidosis outbreak that claimed 15 lives in Cairns during the 2024-25 wet season unveils a startling connection to rainfall and a devastating toll on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
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