The State Government’s likely move to scrap a family birthing centre at WA’s new maternity hospital has been met with heavy resistance.
Caitlyn Rintoul
A trial is set to start using a cancer drug that may offer some hope for sufferers of motor neurone disease.
Tim Dornin
An extra 1.5 million people are now eligible to receive a fourth COVID-19 vaccine, or second booster.
Andrew Brown
Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has reassured West Australians there will be no reduction in family birthing centres as part of the construction of a new women and babies hospital.
Josh Zimmerman
WA has recorded a slight increase in COVID cases, but the update comes amid marked drops in other significant data, with hopes the downward trend will continue.
Miriam Fisher
A broken lift at a Melbourne hospital that forced women in need of emergency caesareans to slide down a stairwell on a stretcher is still not fixed.
Melissa Meehan
The outbreak of monkeypox cases outside of Africa can be contained, the World Health Organisation says, as more governments announce plans to launch limited vaccinations to combat rising infections.
Jennifer Rigby and Mrinalika Roy
The general director of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has been re-elected for a second five-year term of office.
Jennifer Rigby, Emma Farge and Mrinalika Roy
Perth’s new women and babies hospital appears unlikely to include an on-site family birthing centre, with WA’s Health Minister not in support of co-locating the popular service with a tertiary health campus.
A Commonwealth-funded $200 million quarantine facility in Perth’s north looms as an expensive white elephant with Mark McGowan admitting he is unsure what to do with it once construction is complete this year.
Expectant Carnarvon women are being forced to travel hundreds of kilometres in the late stages of their pregnancies to give birth in Geraldton because of a severe shortage of midwives in regional WA.
St John has ‘no ability’ to refuse to ramp its ambulances outside hospitals, as was incorrectly announced by the not-for-profit, sparking chaos and a quick retraction from its chief executive.
South Australia has dropped the Emergency Management Declaration first imposed almost 800 days ago at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WA has recorded 12,114 new COVID cases and six deaths, but the news comes amid a significant drop in active cases in the 24-hour reporting period.
The Greens have called on South Australia to follow Queensland's lead in making the flu vaccine free for everyone this winter.
The Queensland government has ruled out setting up hubs to administer free flu vaccines for now amid concerns about a lack of supply at GP clinics.
Marty Silk
A WA odd couple is mixing medical science with the sweet science of boxing to form a killer combination in tackling the ravages of Parkinson’s disease, following a promising trial.
Steve Butler
A man died in hospital at Albury last week after catching the mosquito-spread virus Japanese encephalitis in early March.
Staff Writers
WA Health is urging West Australians to be mindful of the recent emergence of monkeypox, the rare viral infection being detected in the eastern states.
Kellie Balaam
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced free flu jabs across the state amid a rise in cases in 2022.
Fraser Barton
An epidemiologist has broken down what you need to know about monkeypox, the viral disease that has spread to at least 12 nations.
Madeleine Achenza
US President Joe Biden said Washington had offered COVID-19 vaccines to China and North Korea amid surging numbers, but ‘got no response’.
Soo-hyang Choi
The United States has received the first shipment of infant formula from Europe to help address critical shortages.
Ahmed Aboulenein and Chris Gallagher
Workers in WA’s resources sector are set to be hit with a new universal FIFO booze policy to be rolled out for all mining and gas sites.
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