After spending two months in the intensive and special care nurseries at Mater Mothers' Hospital, identical twins Jackson and Mason Bourke will be going home Monday, 20 December 2004 in time for Christmas after overcoming twin to twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) and other serious medical difficulties.
20/12/2004
The Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) has issued a warning to Queenslanders who will be taking part in water-based recreational activities like jet-skiing, swimming, boating and fishing this Christmas season.
16/12/2004
Australian jazz great James Morrison will join forces with the University of Queensland Medical Society (UQMS) Orchestra TONIGHT at 6.30pm, to create a unique 1920s musical and theatrical extravaganza.
13/12/2004
More than A$11 000 was raised at the "Stockland Art Life" auction on Tuesday night, for the drug-free recreational program Headspace, which is coordinated by Mater and Queensland Health's Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal Service (ADAWS).
10/12/2004
Doctors at Mater Hospital in Brisbane are asking the public to protect themselves against the heat as temperatures are set to soar this summer.
According to Dr Steve Costello, Director of Mater Private Emergency Care Centre, the sick, elderly, young children and newborns are especially prone to suffer adverse reactions to the heat.
8/12/2004
Staff from Metalcorp Everything in Steel will be handing over a A$7000 cheque to Mater Children's Hospital on Tuesday 23 November as a heartfelt contribution towards the 4BC Mater Stars Radio Appeal.
19/11/2004
Mater Private Hospital Redland is hosting a number of exercise classes open to the Bayside community in January 2005 designed specifically to address the health concerns of women under the guidance of a health professional, Physiotherapist Michelle Kenway.
8/11/2004
Mater Health Services in Brisbane is the first hospital in Australia to adopt the web based business system, documentCUBE, to support clinical staff as well as for administrative processes and procedures.
15/09/2004
Dr Margaret Young, representing the Minister for Health in Queensland, will officially open the new premises of the Life Enhancement Centre, which provides peer support and advocacy for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), on Saturday 21 August.
21/08/2004
Mater Health Services, in partnership with Queensland Health, are launching a new pilot program—Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy: Parents Infants Together (SCIPP IT), on Tuesday 27 July in a bid to help pregnant women stop smoking.
12/08/2004