PCH tackles rare diseases
Perth is set to become home to a world-first centre to improve the lives of children born with uncommon diseases. Read More...
News
COVID 2.2 – how things will change
COVID-19 arrived in Perth earlier than expected via an unvaccinated backpacker, but it is just the start as the hard border opens this month. Read More...
Bright sparks thinking outside the square
It is six years since three entrepreneurial friends in Perth – including a surgeon – put their heads together to find innovations that could save the health system time and money. Read More...
Bureaucracy v clinical frontline?
Former Royal Perth Hospital doctor David Prentice details what he believes has gone wrong in health bureaucracy. Read More...
Gut-autism link weakens
A team of researchers, including Professor Andrew Whitehouse from Telethon Kids Institute and the University of WA, has challenged the growing popular belief that the gut microbiome drives autism. Read More...
Experts warn to go easy on oral corticosteroids
A review warns against the risks of over-prescribing oral corticosteroids on some patients with asthma. Read More...
Meet the team
The team at Medical Forum wish you a happy and safe Christmas and New Year. Our offices will close on Friday, December 17 and reopen on Tuesday, January 4. Read More...
Going nuts
Perth Children’s Hospital has launched a trial of an oral immunotherapy that could become Australia’s first treatment for peanut allergy. Read More...