Health authorities are still searching for patient zero in the State’s first official measles outbreak since 2019.
Hannah Cross
With about 1000 infants admitted to hospital with the virus in WA each year, it means more than 500 families avoided hospital stays last winter.
An estimated 4000 babies were prevented from being born too early each year of a three-year program geared towards reducing preterm births.
Body image experts have slammed social media’s ‘chubby filter’ trend as fatphobic, fat-shaming and warned it could encourage eating disorders.
Kate Emery
It is not the first time Halls Head College has been in the news about a ‘fight club’. Violent videos of students laying into each other were posted online in 2013. And its years since have been colourful.
Troy de Ruyter
Emily Cockerham’s brain is literally slipping out of her skull.
Ambulances racked up more than 10,000 hours outside WA hospitals in the first two months of 2025, smashing records in both January and February.
Half of Australian children and teenagers will be obese or overweight by 2050, an alarming study reveals.
Artemisia Blythe
Libby Mettam has made an emotional plea for her plans to shift the Women’s and Babies Hospital by showing the case of a newborn who doctors claimed would have died en route to Labor’s proposed site in Murdoch.
Dylan Caporn
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has accused the State Government of attempting to bury an unfavourable report ahead of the State election.
The number of inpatient beds at the Great Southern’s largest hospital will almost double if Labor is re-elected, with the Premier on Thursday promising a new $60 million modular ward.
Melissa Sheil
People are being urged to avoid swimming and all other direct water contact activities in the river.
Australia’s chief medical officer has issued a grim warning amid the rampant spread of misinformation about vaccinations.
John Flint
A new home care service driven by a Wheatbelt community aims to bridge the gap in rural health care and support residents.
Hannah Whitehead
As residents in Perth’s east express their displeasure at a proposed fast food outlet in their suburb, experts warn community concerns over public health are often overlooked in the planning process.
Oliver Lane
Long-stay hospital patients waiting for NDIS or aged services would be moved to 500 new transitional care beds under a $275 million election pledge from the Liberals to be announced today.
Hospitals will get an extra $1.7 billion in Commonwealth money over the next year in a 12-month funding lifeline that pushes a full deal beyond the Federal election.
Katina Curtis
An outbreak of a gastro bug caused by a tiny parasite has been linked to overseas travel, with the majority of sick travellers returning to Western Australia from Indonesia.
Rhianna Mitchell
WA Labor will invest more than $30m in Kimberley health facilities and initiatives, including matching the Federal Government’s $11m commitment to a Broome health clinic, if re-elected.
Katya Minns
It’s the first detection of the virus in the South West region since August 2023.
The Lions outback vision van will visit Manjimup for the first time with specialists offering free eye services to the community.
Anjelica Smilovitis
Hot weather has caused the deadly organism to spread. Here’s what you should know.
Hayley Taylor
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.
Claire Sadler
‘Social media often sets unhealthy beauty standards, particularly for young people.’
Caleb Taylor
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