Delays in diagnosing and treating birth injuries are significantly affecting women's mental health, impacting ongoing physical limitations and quality of life.
Maeve Bannister
Smartwatches can detect signs of a common and potentially serious sleep disorder with the medical regulator approving software that analyses bedtime breathing.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Concerned parents are flooding WA’s poisons hotline worried their young children are being exposed to vapes.
Hannah Cross and Caitlin Vinci
WA schools are turning to unconventional measures to crackdown on vaping and it has four legs.
Claire Sadler
A Qantas crew member and a miner in WA’s north are among the latest measles cases, with some staff at the Pilbara mine site isolating following the exposure.
Madelin Hayes and Claire Sadler
Thousands of faulty power banks still sitting in Aussie homes could burst into flames, prompting an urgent nationwide recall.
Andrew Hedgman
A study of more than 700 people living with a unique strain of hepatitis B, predominantly affecting Indigenous people, has found severe risks to liver health.
Keira Jenkins
Footage has captured the moment a knife-wielding man was taken down in a dramatic citizen’s arrest, an hour before another man was stabbed in a separate incident.
Alexandra Feiam and Amelia Swan
More doctors could soon be prescribing vapes to those stuck in a smoking cycle as a trial suggests vaping is more effective than traditional quitting aids.
Tom Wark
Palliative care is a basic human right according to the World Health Organization. But is it accessible to everyone, everywhere or is this still an aspiration?
Samar Aoun
South Regional TAFE’s nurses reached the end of their studies last month, with the cohort’s top achievers recognised in an awards ceremony.
Jacki Elezovich
The BreastScreen WA director has urged women with breast cancer symptoms to visit their GP after an influx of women attending the free service with pain or a lump.
Days after being miraculously found alive in the unforgiving WA outback, German backpacker Carolina Wilga has revealed the toll the ordeal took on her health.
Amelia Swan, Alexandra Feiam
A bus driver was rushed to hospital after he was allegedly stabbed in the neck during a shocking daylight attack at a local bus station.
WA Country Health Service’s rural psychiatry training program had four new psychiatrists awarded fellowship in regional WA this year, including one in Albany.
A millionaire businessman allegedly murdered by a teenager at a house party has been remembered as a loving husband and father.
Blair Jackson
A hidden, ‘scary’ problem is lurking in the shadows of a multi-billion dollar industry in Australia.
A two-year-old boy was left in hospital and two people - believed to be his grandparents - have died after they were struck by an out-of-control car.
Alexandra Feiam
At 38, Kyle Hoath is the youngest ever doctor to be appointed AMA WA president and he’s ready to tackle the biggest problem he says is facing the stretched healthcare system.
Hannah Cross
A little girl is recovering in hospital after she was mauled by a dog on Sunday afternoon.
Duncan Evans
Two mothers share their heartbreaking stories of the devastating aftermath of a simple dose of measles.
Malin Hagglund
There has been a horrific update in the tragic Wantirna crash, in which a 91-year-old driver lost control of her car and struck two adults and a little toddler.
One in three women experience birth trauma, but experts say it can be prevented by improving access to continuity of midwifery care and antenatal education.
Australian Olympic swimming champion Leisel Jones has given an update on her wellbeing, less than two weeks after revealing she had wanted to ‘end it all’ in a raw and vulnerable post on social media.
Peta Rasdien
