Media Releases
On Thursday 5 June Tabitha Ford from North Lakes helped kickstart the UQ Masters of Mental Health (Art Therapy) Graduating Students Art Exhibition at the Kids in Mind Art Gallery at Mater Hospital in South Brisbane.
6/06/2008
After 420 000 hours in labour, Mater Health Services has delivered their latest addition weighing in at 27 000 tonnes and measuring 40 metres—the brand new Mater Mothers’ Hospitals.
30/05/2008
Set to provide enhanced public services in a range of clinical specialities, the newly refurbished Mater Adult Hospital and Emergency Department will be officially opened by the Queensland Health Minister, the Honourable Stephen Robertson MP on Wednesday, 30 April 2008.
2/05/2008
The SWEET Diabetes Transition Program website—designed to assist the effective transition of young people with diabetes from paediatric to adult care—was officially launched by the Queensland Health Minister, the Hon. Stephen Robertson MP, at the Sweet Conference held in South Brisbane on 2 April 2008.
2/05/2008
According to a recent study conducted by the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU), school is a common setting for injury and boys are most at risk.
26/03/2008
Brisbane’s Mater Health Services has achieved a major medical coup for Queensland in attracting one of Australia’s top children’s cardiac surgeons, Dr Graham Nunn, to lead the Queensland Paediatric Cardiac Service (QPCS) surgical team at the Mater Children’s Hospital.
5/03/2008
On 6 August, as part of International Breastfeeding Week, Mater Mothers’ Hospital Breastfeeding Support Centre will officially launch its services to the community.
6/08/2007
Monday 6 August 2007, surgeons at Brisbane’s Mater Adult Hospital will operate in the hospital’s new full high definition (1080p) digital integrated operating theatre ORI from Karl Storz, the first of its kind in Australia.
6/08/2007
Children aged between six and 10 years old are required for a one year pilot study to help tackle the growing issue of childhood obesity conducted in partnership between Mater Children’s Hospital and The University of Queensland.
1/06/2007
Mater Health Services has announced today that the children’s cancer service at Mater Children’s Hospital will move to the Royal Children’s Hospital to create a new single children’s cancer centre by September this year.
1/03/2007