Health

A New South Wales-based Indigenous business has been awarded the contract to deliver the state government's Health Innovation Hub.

Growth in Perth's younger adult population last year bodes well for the city's economic growth in the year ahead, according to recent analysis from KPMG.

St John of God has scrapped a proposed birthing unit from its $311 million expansion of the Subiaco hospital, with the new building to be two levels shorter than what was approved.

Perth consulting firm Ralph Beattie Bosworth has been awarded a contract to provide cost planning services for the proposed Women and Babies Hospital at Murdoch.

South Perth-based Cooper & Oxley Group has won a $20 million contract over intensive care unit redevelopment works at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

Tensions over the first paediatric hospice in the state have resurfaced in the western suburbs.

The charity has launched the state's first dedicated 24/7 neurological nursing service, filling a frontline care gap.

A collaboration with Hawaiian and Youth Focus is sparking conversations around youth mental health.

A Perth lawyer says she has faced discrimination over her guide dog while the community law service she works for has reported several incidences of discrimination.

Shares in the Harold Clough-founded company are on the up as it prepares to buy a new stem cell technology.

Subiaco-based biotech business Holista CollTech has sued a US company in the Supreme Court of WA over alleged misleading and deceptive representations.

The recent breach of one of Australia's largest IVF clinics has highlighted the health system's vulnerability to cyber attacks.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged $200 million towards the expansion of St John of God hospital in Midland, if Labor is re-elected in the federal election.

PathWest has awarded several companies contracts, worth $219 million in total, over the automation of laboratory medicine and pathology services across Western Australia.

Amana Living will transfer its Kalgoorlie aged care operations to another not-for-profit organisation.

MSWA has injected $2.4 million into MS Australia's latest grant to fund 35 new research initiatives across the country.

Lifeline WA is well known for helping people in their hour of need, but for Tammey Candeloro it wasn't the organisation's crisis support line that came to her rescue.

St John WA has opened a new building to accommodate touring volunteers – ‘voluntourists' – travelling to the Goldfields town of Laverton.

Respected medical specialist and former Brightwater Care Group chief executive Penny Flett has died aged 77.

NIB Holdings boss Ed Close is confident the private health insurer will finish the 2025 financial year strongly, despite its profits taking a hit during the first half.

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West Perth medtech Artrya has signed a three-year deal to advance the screening and diagnosis of heart disease in Australia.

Nedlands-based biotech company PYC Therapeutics has received approvals to start human trials over a drug candidate for kidney disease.

Both WA Labor and the WA Liberals have pledged to spend tens of millions of dollars on significant healthcare upgrades in an effort to reduce emergency department pressure.

The state government has awarded a contract for the first of two multi-storey car parks at the proposed Women and Babies Hospital while also acknowledging issues with congestion.

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Kim Beazley-backed medtech company Orthocell has flagged an expedited expansion into several jurisdictions after strong early sales of its Remplir nerve repair technology.

The emergency department at St John of God Subiaco could be delayed up to two years after an application to extend the project's stage three start deadline was submitted.

South Perth-based Cooper & Oxley Group has won a $44 million contract over redevelopment work at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

Bulk billing availability in WA has again declined, with a mere one in 16 WA GP clinics offering bulk billing in 2025, down from one in 10 last year, and one in five the year prior.