Princess Alexandra Hospital patients with rare cancers can now have their DNA tested to identify the potentially most effective treatment under a $50 million, national trial.
Princess Alexandra Hospital is helping regional hospitals tackle Australia’s most common form of heart disease by arming them with the equipment and training to diagnose and track it.
We may have had the Commonwealth Games and a royal visit to Australia from the Prince of Wales but Judy is bringing the royal touch to the new Pandanus Ward in Wynnum, having met Prince Charles on a previous visit in 1970.
Finishing chemotherapy is a major milsetone for anyone living with cancer, so a special gift donated to Logan Hospital’s Children’s Inpatient Unit will now make the end of treatment even more significant.
Metro South Health Board members Donisha Duff and Adjunct Professor Iyla Davies joined with MSH Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander District Co-ordinator Ash Currie to celebrate this year’s NAIDOC Week theme ‘Because of Her, We Can’.
Last week, more than 200 people honoured the lives of patients who had died within the Metro South Palliative Care Service at a multidenominational remembrance service.
This NAIDOC Week, patients and staff from Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Spinal Injuries Unit celebrated the history and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with a cook-up inside the Occupational Therapy Kitchen.
