SURGERY to ease the suffering of long-term asthma sufferers is now available at Frankston Hospital. It is the first time surgery to reduce the effects of asthma attacks on chronic asthma sufferers for whom traditional medications do not work has been offered in Victoria. Peninsula Health’s director of thoracic medicine, Professor David Langton, performed the procedure for the first time last week while accompanied by Harvard professor of medicine, Dr Armin Ernst, who pioneered the procedure. The bronchial thermoplasty procedure involves inserting a bronchoscope, or small tube, down the patient’s airway and into their lungs whilst they are under anaesthesia.…
Author: Bayside News
Sexual Crime Squad detectives are appealing for witnesses following a sexual assault on a woman in Mordialloc on 22 February. A 19-year-old woman got off a Frankston-bound train at Mordialloc Railway Station with an unknown man whom she struck up a conversation with just after midnight. The pair walked together north-east along Bear Street to a reserve, near the corner of Chute Street, when the man sexually assaulted the victim. The offender then fled the scene and was last seen walking along Bear Street. The victim ran back to the railway station where she raised the alarm. The man is…
BANKERS will become bakers to whisk up cupcakes and biscuits in aid of a good cause. Staff at Frankston’s Bendigo Bank will host a Bake Off to raise funds for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Inspired by TV show MasterChef, staff will get cooking as part of Starlight’s Community Cooking Challenge. Starlight provides some brightness in the lives of seriously ill children by arranging fun events for their families. Bank acting manager Kerry Debernardi said the Bake Off was a way for the bank to make a difference to the lives of some Frankston families. “Raising this sort of money will…
CARRUM MP Donna Bauer is on a mission to make the Bowel Movement one of the most talked about campaigns in the country. Australia has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world. Of the 286 new cases diagnosed every week, 77 people will die from the disease. The campaign is particularly important for the 43-year-old mother of four after being diagnosed with the disease earlier this year. Mrs Bauer said that according to Bowel Cancer Australia, 40 per cent of people within her electorate have at least one of the following four health risk factors –…
LOCAL boxing veteran Sam Soliman is Australia’s new king of the ring after being crowned world middleweight champion following his victory over IBF titleholder Felix Sturm in Germany on Sunday. But the win certainly came as no surprise to the 40-year-old champion, despite it being his first-ever major international title over his 23 year boxing career, 17 of which have been as a professional. Soliman, who spoke with The News last month in the lead up to his title fight, dominated the 35-year-old Sturm, scoring a unanimous points decision in front of a partisan German home crowd in Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen. The…