Nurse-to-patient ratios are being expanded to medical and surgical wards across all metropolitan hospitals in the next phase of a long-waited roll-out.
Hannah Cross
Former WA governor and US ambassador Kim Beazley will step down from the board of Perth regenerative medicine company Orthocell due to health reasons.
Cheyanne Enciso
An Australian study has reconsidered the 10,000 a day step goal, revealing walking just 7000 steps a day can lower the risk of early death by almost 50 per cent.
Claire Sadler
Disability support service Activ Foundation will become known as genU after the WA organisation’s merger with the Victorian-based provider.
WA Health has put out a tender to find a provider for the department’s biggest staff engagement poll, almost two years after the former contractor went into liquidation.
Millions of Australians grappling with chronic pain are waiting years for a diagnosis as calls mount for the condition to be formally recognised.
Dylan Caporn
Having low levels of vitamin D may increase the risk of hospitalisation with COVID-19, Australian and UK scientists have reported.
John Flint
An investigation following a cyber attack in which a raft of IVF patient details were stolen has confirmed they were published on the dark web.
John Kidman
Plastic and its chemicals are known to be harmful to our health. So is reducing your plastic exposure likely to improve your health and treat disease? A world-first trial is being done in Perth to find out.
Angela Pownall
Investment bank UBS expects Donald Trump’s tariff threat on pharmaceuticals to have ‘limited’ impact on biotech giant CSL, especially if plasma products are excluded.
The peak body for Australia’s life sciences industry has flagged concerns Donald Trump’s pharmaceutical tariff threat could force more local biotechs and medical technology firms to move operations overseas.
WA Premier Roger Cook has delivered a stirring defence of Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme amid the latest round of tariff threats from Donald Trump, saying it’s ‘not up for negotiation’.
Research shows that music can be used to promote human health, with one expert saying the Western world has largely dismissed its greater benefits.
WA’s top university is suing two contractors after more than 46,000 scientific samples from the famed Raine medical research study were destroyed by a malfunctioning freezer.
Matt Mckenzie
The boss of WA regenerative medicine company Orthocell has labelled Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat on pharmaceuticals as a ‘cage-rattling exercise’ to try elicit panic from the Australian Government.
WA biotech Orthocell has posted record revenue for the June quarter as sales for its nerve repair technology surge in Australia, ahead of an expected ramp up in US.
WA regenerative medicine firm Orthocell says it has marked another commercialisation milestone with the first successful surgical use of its nerve repair product in the US.
WA has signed up to the full coverage of the National Disability Insurance Scheme after being an outlier State.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Royal Life Saving WA’s chief executive says the State Government needs to do ‘more instead of less’ when it comes to investment in drowning prevention after a VacSwim initiative was cut from the State Budget.
Caleb Runciman
Two Perth hospitals have given a directive to staff to wear masks after experiencing an unprecedented influx of influenza and COVID-19 cases for this time of year.
The Federal Government is pumping $1 million into WA biotech Argenica Therapeutics to advance global clinical trials for its potentially life-saving stroke drug.
Australia’s biggest health insurer is backing the use of MDMA-based therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in a landmark deal signed with a WA-based biotech.
Hollywood action star Bruce Willis’s daughter Rumer has shared some devastating news about her dad as Americans celebrated Father’s Day.
Matt Shrivell
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