- Why Ballarat’s cool weather still burns you — UV, not temperature, causes skin damage — and Ballarat regularly reaches burning levels on days nobody would describe as hot.
- Antibiotics: when they help, and when they quietly cost you — Most of what sends people to a GP in winter is viral. Understanding why that matters makes the appointment more useful for everyone.
- The bowel screening kit in your mailbox is not junk mail — It arrives free, it takes five minutes at home, and it finds a cancer that is highly treatable when caught early. Around half of kits are never returned.
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