NEW Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating are now open for public review.

ACCORDING to climate modelling for 2050, northern sections of WA could present ideal conditions for dengue fever.

RESEARCH from Western Australia’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research finds that heavy smoking by fathers around the time of conception greatly increases the risk of the child developing Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer.

PERTH’S Somali-Australian community has played a key role in new research on the health impacts of khat (Catha edulis) leaves, chewed for their amphetamine-like stimulant effects.

HEART failure is linked to a loss of cerebral grey matter and impaired cognitive function—a link exposed by researchers at UWA and the Western Australian Institute for Health and Ageing.

PERTH’S Telethon Institute of Child Health Research researchers are the first to provide evidence for a biological mechanism underlying language delay, showing that boys exposed to high levels of testosterone in utero show an increased prevalence of language delay.