Cancer patients in the Great Southern will not have to worry about climbing stairs to access services they need for treatment and support if the State Government is re-elected, thanks to a $25,000 pledge.
Melissa Sheil
If there’s one area where Trump continues to defy the naysayers, it’s his health and, perhaps more importantly for the ‘leader of the free world’, his stamina.
Tom Leonard
Children are spending more and more time on social media, with TikTok and Instagram the most popular, a report reveals.
Bethany Hiatt
The Great Southern will no longer be the only WA region without a residential rehabilitation facility if Labor win the 2025 state election, with the party pledging $12.4m to establish a local centre this week
Twelve students from Perth universities have started their placement in regional health care at Albany Health Campus, where they will gain hands-on experience in a range of medical specialities.
Jacki Elezovich
Hot weather has caused the deadly organism to spread. Here’s what you should know.
Hayley Taylor
The US will leave the United Nations health agency in 12 months' time and stop paying billions of dollars towards its work around the world.
Staff Writers
Psychiatrists have begun to walk away from their jobs in the public system over an intensifying wage dispute which threatens to cause significant bed closures.
Maeve Bannister and Neve Brissenden
The simple dos and don’ts for navigating Ozempic etiquette.
Claudia Connell
Replacing psychiatrists with nurses and counsellors will not lower standards, state leaders insist, as crisis plans are drawn up for looming resignations.
Jack Gramenz and Neve Brissenden
Pregnant women will be able to get a free vaccine to protect their babies from RSV, as part of a $174 million national immunisation program.
Andrew Brown
Nearly 14,000 WA children needed care or treatment in public hospital emergency departments last summer, prompting safety groups to issue new warnings about summer risks to kids.
Claire Sadler
Disturbing new studies forecast the number of dementia cases will double in coming decades. There’s no cure, and dementia can’t be prevented, but you can reduce your risk. Here are some ideas.
Marlene Cimons
A groundbreaking prostate cancer treatment has returned to WA after a lack of expertise in the State meant men had to travel to access the life-saving therapy but some are still being forced to go without.
A 22-year-old citizen of Azerbaijan has been diagnosed with the country's first case of the viral infection mpox, authorities say.
The Health Services Union of WA has accused the State Government of only being interested in listening to workers ‘when it’s politically convenient’.
Hannah Cross
Patients in mental distress will face tele-consults as NSW Health scrambles to lessen the impact of two in three public psychiatrists resigning.
Luke Costin
Doctors are warning about the far-reaching effects of a tanning spray such as kidney problems and increased skin cancer risk.
Caleb Taylor
Mental health patients are being discharged or sent elsewhere after staffing shortages forced the closure of a Perth mental health ward.
Jessica Boam has given birth to one child through IVF but under current laws, her remaining viable embryos to carry a second child cannot be transferred to her wife, Claire.
Jessica Page
A ‘milestone’ in the redevelopment of Mandurah’s hospital was celebrated by WA Labor, but there are two things the Government can’t tell us.
Jake Dietsch
A study over four decades with more than 133,000 people has revealed the risks of eating too many sausages.
Victoria Allen
The nurses union claims it warned for years about serious health system failures identified in an audit, which the state government says it will work to remedy.
Emily Verdouw
Despite desperate calls for improvements to the Margaret River Hospital, Premier Roger Cook has defended WA Labor making no funding commitments.
Sofia Fimognari
