South Metropolitan Health Service welcomed 118 new medical graduates last week, signalling the start of their careers as doctors. Over the year they will complete rotations in different medical specialities at hospitals including Fiona Stanley Hospital.

A small act of kindness has embodied the true spirit of the giving season and put a big smile on the faces of our youngest patients.

A ground-breaking bladder cancer study which began in Western Australia has received almost $1.6 million in funding and will become the largest bladder cancer clinical trial initiated and run in Australia.

Clinical Professor Adnan Khattak has received a prestigious Raine Medical Research Foundation Clinician Research Fellowship to research cancer patients’ responses to immunotherapy treatments.