Scientia Professor Gordon Parker and Professor Helen Milroy have been announced as dual winners of the 2020 Australian Mental Health Prize. [ + ]

Child and adolescent exposure to poisoning while at school is relatively common and appears to be increasing, according to research from the University of Sydney. [ + ]

Enterprise solutions provider Wavelink has announced the availability of Olinqua's mobile communication application for hospitals. [ + ]

The Australian Government has secured two more potential coronavirus vaccines for Australia. [ + ]

The active compound in magic mushrooms — psilocybin — has been found to produce large, rapid and sustained improvements in patients with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder. [ + ]

Thanks to the implantation of a tiny device, patients with upper limb paralysis are now able to text, email and shop online. [ + ]

Nearly half of Queensland's trainee doctors are worried they will make a clinical mistake because they are exhausted from working excessively long hours. [ + ]

Dr Larisa Labzin has helped demystify the topic of COVID-19 reinfections — highlighting what researchers now know for sure, what they think may be true and which areas they still have no idea about. [ + ]

The WA health system will save up to $35 million over the next 10 years, following the establishment of a new pharmaceutical contract. [ + ]

SHPA has welcomed the patient safety measures that have emerged from the later stages of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. [ + ]

A smartphone app is now available to help Australian doctors diagnose common respiratory diseases remotely. [ + ]

Metro North Hospital and Health Service is launching a pharmaceutical program that will allow greater access to medications for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients visiting its facilities. [ + ]

Movember is launching a bumper network of prostate cancer patient registries, set to transform treatment and care of the disease. [ + ]

Products are available that focus on making touchpoints safe. But not all antimicrobial products are equal. [ + ]

New findings by researchers at the UBC Faculty of Medicine are set to change international treatment recommendations for people with newly diagnosed HIV. [ + ]