Research and clinical trials

The Council is an important step in addressing a range of issues that often result in Australian women and girls experiencing poor health outcomes.

Researchers from the Royal Women’s Hospital joined leading international experts to share the latest in newborn medicine at the annual Cool Topics conference.

The Royal Women’s Hospital’s annual Research Report was launched last night at an event celebrating the achievements of the hospital’s ten research centres.

The Royal Women’s Hospital congratulates four of our esteemed clinicians who have been appointed clinical associate professors (honorary) by the University of Melbourne.

We are pleased that women due for cervical screening can now self-collect a sample, as an alternative to a cervical screening test (previously known as a Pap test).

Imagine being 26 weeks pregnant, and diagnosed with brain cancer. That’s what happened to Laura Tucker, who had ovarian tissue removed and stored at the Women’s.

During NAIDOC Week, we are sharing what First Nations mothers have told us is most important in their maternity care.

The Women's Director of Gynaecology Research is on a mission. She wants to tackle the ‘over medicalisation’ of menopause and instead show its ‘light and shade’.

Expert neonatologists and researchers at the Women’s have helped to establish a new method of care that could improve outcomes for premature newborns all over the world.

Researchers at the Royal Women’s Hospital have secured $10.6 million in government grants from the Medical Research Future Fund.