Perth nurse receives medical research funding to help fight a life-threatening illness that kills more people than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.

Resident Researcher Professor Markus Schlaich from the Dobney Hypertension Centre is working hard to find out.

RPH Research Foundation is funding a world-first, randomised clinical trial to investigate if using hearing aids is an effective way to improve the cognitive functions of older adults and delay the onset of dementia symptoms.

A third of adult Australians have high blood pressure (hypertension), but only half of them are aware they have this potentially life-threatening condition. Plus, the standard medications prescribed to treat hypertension don’t control BP in almost 60 per cent of patients.

During NAIDOC Week the Aboriginal Ageing Well Research team at The University of Western Australia (with the support of RPH Research Foundation) focuses on a tough subject: Dementia.

3D Printing, Scanning, and Stem cell therapy to heal complex wounds

We’re thrilled to announce trailblazing researchers, Dr Alan Kop and Dr Andrew Ford, are the winners of the Foundation’s inaugural Innovation and Impact Grants.

Researchers at RPH Research Foundation have discovered evidence that breast arterial calcification (BAC), an incidental finding on up to almost a third of mammograms, could potentially help screen for other preventable conditions, including coronary artery disease (CAD), high blood pressure (hypertension) and diabetes mellitus.

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.