Western Australia will get its own truly comprehensive cancer centre, similar to those in other States and internationally, with the WA State Government earlier this month confirming funding for the Perkins WA Comprehensive Cancer Centre to be built at the QEII Medical Campus site.
Science steps up in a time of crisis.
Never in our lifetime have so many Australians, and so many across the globe, been so affected by a single health issue.
We know cancer is the uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body and that it can occur in almost any type of tissue cell, which means the term cancer actually refers to o
When any of us needs a little inspiration at the Perkins there's a small sample of mould we can visit that's mounted on the wall in a little plastic container on the first floor.
The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (Perkins) in Perth has been awarded three of Australia's most prestigious Research Fellowships from the National Health and Medical Research Council
Recently, five much loved WA artists took on a novel challenge of expressing their support for medical research by decorating lab coats in their distinctive styles.
The Federal Government last month announced the largest single investment of the Medical Research Future Fund.It focuses on screening for genetic diseases.
If you're suffering from advanced stages of cancer the best news your oncologist can deliver, apart from saying you're winning the battle, is that you're eligible for a promising new drug trial.
Researchers from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research have helped explain the high failure rate of one of the most commonly used medical devices in the world.
Researchers at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research have identified a group of genes that are a likely cause of atrial fibrillation, or the rapid beating of the heart.
