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26 May 2026
Double organ transplant patient gets new lease on life
For most of his life, 40-year-old First Nations man Tristram Creek has lived with the consequences of a disease he was diagnosed with as a child.
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19 May 2026
Award winner driven by compassion and lived experience
For Samantha Bullman, her patients are like family. Ironically, it was her own mother’s 30-year battle with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) which inspired the clinical nurse consultant to take on a role in gastroenterology at Mackay Base Hospital
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21 February 2025
Research critical to treatment of deadly bacterial infection
A Mackay ICU doctor is researching immune response to a deadly soil-borne bacterial disease surging in case numbers in the far north in a bid to help tailor treatment.