Gold Coast Health has become the first health service in Australia to introduce a new program that endeavours to prevent eating disorders by arming parents with important tools and knowledge to prevent eating disorders in their children.

A new support group, the first of its kind in Queensland, is providing mothers with high-risk pregnancies an outlet to talk about their feelings with peers in similar situations.

Queensland’s Health Minister is urging Gold Coast residents to get their flu jabs as the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service braces for another flu season.

A Gold Coast Health doctor has landed a $60,000 grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation to look at how to make sedation a less stressful experience for children.