The Cutting Edge - Health and Research 2021

When health insurer HBF opened its first two of 15 HBF Dental centres earlier this year, it set out to redesign the dental experience for its members. 

WA has many advantages in terms of hosting a thriving medical research and innovation ecosystem.

Despite avoiding the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic so far, Perth is playing a role in efforts to combat the disease.

As a 2014 40under40 winner and HBF’s newly-appointed Executive General Manager – Health, Dr Daniel Heredia is leading the insurer’s transition from being a passive payer to an active participant in th

Several exciting AI innovations are emerging from WA, and the world is watching.

Health insurer HBF and private maternity service One For Women have delivered significant savings for WA mothers in the first year of a partnership aimed at reducing the out-of-pocket cost of giving b

AI can find answers to childhood disease, with the right data and researchers.

Barriers separating industry, teaching and academic clinical research are impeding development of medtech in WA.

Advances in technology are providing choice for people living with disability.

WA medical researchers are discovering new techniques in the fight against cancer.

Female researchers and entrepreneurs have powered many of WA’s health care advancements.

A couple of local trials could boost recovery from intestinal disease and depression.

In 2016, the first known case of advanced silicosis caused by artificial stone was diagnosed in Australia. Since then, doctors have been diagnosing more and more cases of silicosis in relatively young workers.

SWAT teams locking down the centre of San Francisco as the US Vice President addresses a crowd of biotech executives, the release of stellar CAR-T results that completely eradicated blood cancer in se