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Thousands of Gold Coast teenagers are being offered free vaccinations to protect them from cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

ÐÇ¿ÕÌåÓý patients in need of rapid and compassionate mental health care are already benefitting from an initiative being trialled to help reduce emergency department demand.

ÐÇ¿ÕÌåÓý researchers are leading a world-first clinical trial into the effects of medicinal cannabis in treating people living with motor-neurone disease (MND) or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

ÐÇ¿ÕÌåÓý has welcomed 142 new nursing and midwifery graduates in 2019.

Queensland Health Director-General Michael Walsh visited Gold Coast University Hospital this month ahead of ÐÇ¿ÕÌåÓý¡¯s digital transformation.

Dr Graham Jay, Director of Paediatric Emergency Medicine Training at Gold Coast University Hospital, recently made a humanitarian trip to Laos to teach junior doctors training in paediatrics.

Six Gold Coast Mental Health and Specialist Services staff have been deployed to help with the relief efforts in Townsville this week, providing support to anyone experiencing significant stress following the disastrous floods.

Past and present patients touched by the specialised care provided by ÐÇ¿ÕÌåÓý¡¯s Children¡¯s Critical Care Unit (CCCU) have joined staff to recognise the unit¡¯s fifth anniversary in Gold Coast University Hospital¡¯s parklands.

ÐÇ¿ÕÌåÓý breast surgeon Dr Rhea Liang has become a part of history this month by having her research study published in The Lancet¡¯s first edition devoted to women.

Gold Coasters are being urged to take more care when using ladders and scaffold to access high places.