Giving workers one day of leave a month to care for reproductive needs would help reduce the $21.3 billion cost of absent employees, a report has found.
Maeve Bannister
The Western Australia measles outbreak has now reached 13 confirmed cases, with The Department of Health warning travellers.
Sofia Fimognari
Despite the significant threats that measles poses, there are still parents who refuse to vaccinate their children.
Katie Attwell
They may look like something out of a science fiction movie but these smart glasses allow specialists to treat patients in their own lounge room.
Lucy Murray
A proposal to build a childcare facility that could cater for almost a hundred children and a medical centre with a GP clinic and physio in McKail is open for public comment.
Melissa Sheil
A Perth researcher is investigating if the key to helping veterans and emergency first responders suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder could be as simple as doing a downward dog.
Claire Sadler
Some doctors are too busy to go to the toilet during long shifts and warn a "vicious cycle of burnout" means worse patient care, as they fight for better pay.
Stephanie Gardiner, Alex Mitchell and Farid Farid
A group of WA biotechs have urged the State Government to match the existing Federal research and development tax incentive in a move they are certain will attract and retain talent.
Cheyanne Enciso
Now imagine that experience replaced with a five-minute tick-box formality.
Andrew Leech
WA is one of a small number of Australian States and Territories to have announced a free influenza vaccination program for 2025. I strongly encourage its uptake.
Andrew Ngeow
Bunbury residents raised $17,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Western Australia in the eighth annual Walk to Defeat MND fundraiser at the Koombana Bay foreshore.
St John of God Hospital Bunbury and Bunbury’s Urgent Care Clinic have co-operated to more easily transition patients to a hospital bed by easing pressure on the hospital’s emergency department.
Diabetes treatments are offering a glimmer of hope for a degenerative brain condition set to affect more than 800,000 Australians by the middle of the century.
William Ton
Henry Crayton worked 135 hours in the past fortnight with just one day off, covering 150 patients per shift - and he's not alone in wanting better treatment.
Alex Mitchell and Farid Farid
Taking up that dreaded gym membership could be shaped by the season of your conception, as a study suggests it could influence how your body stores fat.
Farid Farid
The mother of beloved Perth teenager Amelia ‘Milli’ Lucas — who died of a rare brain cancer four years ago — has also lost her own devastating battle with the disease.
The West Australian
Albany’s Care Shuttle has been thrown a lifeline, with Federal Member for O’Connor Rick Wilson helping the service access vital funding so it can continue providing much-needed transport for cancer patients.
The World Health Organization is warning cuts to international health aid programs could lead to more women dying in childbirth, reversing years of progress.
Jennifer Rigby and Mariam Sunny
The owners of a new private urgent care centre for sick kids are aiming to offer the first real alternative to Perth Children’s Hospital for non-emergency cases.
Rhianna Mitchell
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has travelled to Texas after a second unvaccinated child died from measles.
Kanishka Singh and Susan Heavey
Middle-aged Australian women who are lonely are more at risk of early death, with researchers calling for public awareness to destigmatise loneliness.
Dunno where to find the dunny? Australians are being called on to flush out the nation's best-kept secret - the elusive public toilet.
Katelyn Catanzariti
The Nedlands mayor has recently been in the headlines over the issue of the Perth Children’s Hospice.
Ben Harvey
When Professor Jonathan Carapetis says Strep A is the ‘nastiest bug you’ve never heard of’, he’s not kidding.
Hannah Cross
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