Groundbreaking COVID-19 modelling software designed on the Gold Coast is playing a key role in the fight against the pandemic – and its creators hope it will also help win the war against future diseases.

Professor Chris Stapelberg, the Joint Chair in Mental Health for Gold Coast University Hospital and Bond University, began work on the Discrete-Event, Simulated Social Agent-Based Network Transmission (DESSABNeT) model in early April last year, as Australia was gripped with fears over COVID-19.

A new same day ‘see and treat’ service is delivering slam dunk results for patients with non-melanoma skin cancers.

Each week in Australia, almost 300 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer and more than 100 people will lose their lives.

A new permanent BreastScreen Queensland clinic on the Gold Coast will help boost access to free breast cancer screening for local women. 

The tiny cries of hundreds of newborn babies echoed throughout Gold Coast University Hospital during May, with the hospital welcoming a record number of 534 babies into the world. 

PHD candidate Helen Anderson hopes her research will result in improved care and support for people diagnosed with metastatic bladder cancer.

Advanced practice physiotherapist Deborah Lenaghan’s journey into healthcare started 40 years ago in pathology before studying physiotherapy at university.

Gold Coast Health staff donned their funkiest, most attention-grabbing socks yesterday to recognise the high levels of stress and suicide amongst health professionals as part of the annual Crazy Socks 4 Docs initiative. 

Anaesthetic doctors are offering patients the opportunity to participate in a world class clinical trial to test a medication that could prevent post-surgery infections in people who have undergone major abdominal surgery.

Gold Coast men with prostate cancer now have access to specialised support, following the appointment of the region’s first-ever Prostate Cancer Specialist Nurse at the Gold Coast University Hospital.