Fancy being in a medical board?
Nominations are now open for WA health professionals to join two important medical boards. Read More...
LATEST ARTICLES
Familial hypercholesterolaemia – more common than we realise
Despite almost 40 years elapsing since Brown and Goldstein’s 1985 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for their ground-breaking research concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism, awareness among the general public and health professionals about hereditary conditions such as familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) remains low. Read More...
It’s time to grow up
Medtech company CEO Goh Khoon Seng believes innovations will be needed to make the health system more sustainable post-COVID. Read More...
Some things change – others do not
This year will require everyone in the health sector to be adaptable and innovative as COVID becomes an endemic virus. It will also require a pivot back to all the non-COVID health issues which have been ignored to varying degrees over the past two years. Read More...
Hockey is the bee’s knees
The Access Cardiology Western Hockey Masters Gala Day at Perth Hockey Stadium late last year saw some of WA’s legendary masters hit the field to highlight the wonders of modern medicine. Read More...
Real-time in vivo endomicroscopy: endless possibilities
Technological advancements such as automation, robotics and artificial intelligence are driving the fourth industrial revolution. These same principles and technologies are finding their way into clinical practice and have the potential to revolutionise patient care. Read More...
Converting Broome nacre into a bone substitute for orthopaedic use
As people around the world are living longer, we are seeing an increased demand for bone substitutes and graft for surgical treatment of orthopaedic conditions. More than two million bone grafting procedures to treat bone defects are performed annually worldwide, making it the second most frequent tissue transplantation. Read More...
The new age of automated insulin delivery systems for type 1 diabetes
One hundred years after the discovery of insulin, technological advancements herald the dawn of a new era of automated insulin delivery systems for managing Type 1 diabetes (T1D). Read More...