A St John WA volunteer with over a decade of experience is taking his skills to the next level with plans to study paramedicine at university this year while continuing to serve his community in Williams
Hannah Whitehead
Those planning to slim down with a diet in the New Year may want to think again.
Doctors are already using weight loss drugs to treat binge eating disorder. But some experts warn that it’ a Band-Aid, not a fix.
Dani Blum
Little Green Pharma founder Fleta Solomon is confident France will legalise the use of medicinal cannabis later this year, a move she expects will result in other countries following suit.
Cheyanne Enciso
INSIDER: In as little as five years, patients could walk into a GP surgery and be greeted by ChatGPT-like software. Experts say this futuristic scenario is just one way AI can play a role in medicine.
A retiree has launched a lawsuit against a Perth neurosurgeon after an allegedly botched spinal surgery left him needing to use a wheelchair.
Claire Sadler
The potential benefits of medicinal cannabis are no laughing matter. But can you safely operate equipment or make important decisions while feeling a little spaced out?
Michael Stutley
Little Green Pharma founder and chief executive Fleta Solomon has walked away from the top job.
If you take an elderly relative to Fiona Stanley Hospital in the dark pre-dawn, you’ll walk among the earnest soldiers of health, hiving across the car park to be swallowed by the cubist factory buildings.
Andrew Miller
Further testing of a potentially breakthrough scar treatment is in the works after UWA researchers found the Pharmaxis-piloted topical topical cream to be safe for human application.
Jordan Murray
A teenage medical student’s discovery of the ‘secret to life’ led him on a decades’ long mission to improve support for autistic children and their families.
Jake Dietsch
Egyptologists have found evidence of a gruesome practice which involved severing the hands of enemies.
Rachel Fenner
One of WA’s top trauma surgeons has described the ‘enormous exponential increase’ of serious e-scooter injuries presenting to Royal Perth Hospital’s emergency department as a ‘new disease’.
Shannon Hampton
WA researchers have developed a chocolate-flavoured painkiller making it easier for children to swallow bitter-tasting medication before surgery.
Kellie Balaam
A doctor at the coalface shares his insights into how the right-to-die laws are helping terminally ill West Australians and their loved ones.
Katie Hampson
Australian Medical Association boss Omar Khorshid has hit out against States for pausing elective surgeries as hospital systems buckle under the latest wave of COVID-19.
Sarah Ison
Trauma expert Dr Sarah Woodhouse on how trauma can come from common, everyday experiences
Lily Hoffmann
St John Harvey Sub Centre saved its service fees since 1996, building upon an initial $20,000 in reserves to reach $1,069,000 with no outside funding, building a new extension on its facility.
Kasper Johansen
An executive at one of WA’s biggest public hospitals has admitted what the State Government won’t — doctors have faced an unprecedented ‘crisis’ this week.
Peter Law
For the next seven days family, friends and compatriots in one of our favourite cities will find themselves grappling with the anxieties of yet another move to stop COVID-19.
Birth trauma is real. It affects one in three Australian women and can have a lasting impact on their lives.
The birth of a child should be one of the happiest moments of a woman’s life - but for some it is an experience that leaves them psychologically scarred.
ED presentations may be down because of the pandemic, but experts fear many suffers are complacent about prevention and at risk as winter approaches
Raquel de Brito
New personalised diets using genetic data could suggest our DNA is the key to achieving health goals
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