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Red Nose Day falls on 27 August this year. It is Red Nose Australia's national day to raise awareness and funds for safe sleep research and for families affected by the sudden and unexpected death of a baby or child. The six safe sleep recommendations Red Nose Australia's safe sleep recommendations apply to every baby from birth to 12 months. Sleep baby on their back for every sleep, day and night. Keep baby's head and face uncovered during sleep. Keep baby smoke free before

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection. It can be serious, even life threatening, for very young babies. Newborns are not yet old enough for their own vaccinations to protect them fully. This is why health authorities recommend a whooping cough vaccine during every pregnancy. The Australian Immunisation Handbook recommends a single dose of the pertussis-containing vaccine (dTpa) in each pregnancy. The best time is between 20 and

Face, arms, speech, time. A stroke is always a medical emergency, and the first person to notice one is almost never a doctor.

If you are aged 45 to 74, the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program provides a free test kit. It looks for something that usually causes no symptoms at all in its early stages.

People who work outdoors receive five to ten times more UV radiation than people who work inside. It does not arrive as sunburn on a memorable day at the beach. It accumulates quietly, across ordinary working weeks.