Reported to have endured the largest institutional outbreak of COVID-19 in healthcare workers in Australia, the RMH's multidimensional response has been examined. [ + ]

GE Healthcare and GenesisCare have partnered to tackle the globe's greatest health burdens: cancer and cardiovascular disease. [ + ]

Autism CRC has published a landmark report, detailing the best available high-quality evidence about interventions for children on the autism spectrum aged up to 12 years. [ + ]

The secret pathway used by some aggressive breast cancers to avoid detection has been uncovered by researchers at Macquarie University. [ + ]

A multicentre randomised controlled trial has demonstrated the importance of a new spinal cord stimulation technique in providing back pain relief compared with conventional therapy. [ + ]

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

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

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. [ + ]