Keeping our drugs effective
The WA Country Health Service is a key player in a new push to reduce antimicrobial resistance, which will urge doctors to ensure they only prescribe antibiotics where necessary. Read More...
Medical Forum Weekly
Medical cannabis and cognition
A new Victorian study has made significant findings in the use of medical cannabis, suggesting that when used as prescribed to manage a chronic health condition, cannabis does not negatively impact cognitive function. Read More...
Best in the West
Forty finalists have been announced in the WA Health Excellence Awards, competing across nine areas. Read More...
New Aussie guidelines for diabetes foot disease
Diabetes Feet Australia, a division of the Australian Diabetes Society, has developed new evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes-related foot disease. Read More...
Boost for eating disorders help
The State Government will develop a new eating disorders approach that will address prevention, early intervention, treatment and support services across WA. Read More...
COVID third biggest killer
COVID was the third leading cause of death in Australia last year, Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows. Read More...
Western Cardiology Podcast with Dr Michelle Ammerer
Medical Forum journalist Eric Martin sat down with Dr Michelle Ammerer, an interventional cardiologist from Western Cardiology - based at St John of God Subiaco Hospital and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital – to talk about the changes that have taken place in interventional cardiology, and the latest treatments available to doctors and their patients. Read More...
Shock maternity closure at SJOG Mt Lawley
St John of God Health Care is consolidating maternity care across its Perth metropolitan private hospitals, which will see its Mt Lawley Hospital services transfer to SJOG Subiaco. Read More...