WA’s medical researchers are working tirelessly behind the scenes to help our state – and the rest of the world – combat the global Covid-19 crisis.

A new global set of guidelines released today will help countries across the world manage hypertension, which is particularly critical in the current COVID-19 environment.

RPH Research Foundation is dedicating all donations it receives in April and May 2020 to helping Western Australia’s medical researchers combat the global COVID-19 crisis.

Australia’s obesity epidemic is undermining expert attempts to reduce cardiovascular disease – one of the leading causes of death nationwide.

A new, phone-based falls prevention program called RESPOND has been shown to reduce falls in older people who are sent home from hospital emergency departments.

A titanium filter that looks more like a cocktail umbrella than a medical device has the attention of trauma physicians around the world.

Almost all (97 per cent) shift workers are unable to adjust their body clocks between day and night shifts and are missing out on quality sleep, it was reported at the Royal Perth Hospital Medical Research Foundation’s Pilbara Sleep Health Summit.

A global study involving researchers from the RPH Research Foundation and The University of Western Australia has found more than a third of people have high blood pressure, but many are unaware they have it.

The RPH Research Foundation partnered with Royal Perth Hospital’s Nursing Research Foundation to launch the Doreen McCarthy Grant. The purpose of this grant is to enable nurses to pursue research with the intent of enabling better patient outcomes.

An off-the-shelf cancer therapy, 3D bone printing and preventing chronic pain after surgery are just some of the game-changing treatments our city’s most brilliant minds want to bring to fruition – and they’ve received $300,000 to help make it happen, thanks to the Royal Perth Hospital Medical Research Foundation’s Springboard Grants Program 2019.