Move to mandate record of all prescriptions, harm reduction services save money and lives, calls for urgent action on interoperability, and more
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My Health Record update welcomed
Thursday | Jan 29 2026HEALTH Minister Mark Butler has proposed major changes to medication record keeping, with the creation of a new National Medicines Record that logs all medicines prescribed and dispensed for patients.
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Harm prevention services save money, lives
Thursday | Jan 29 2026COMMON harm reduction services such as take-home naloxone, opioid agonist treatment and needle-syringe programs not only reduce negative consequences of drug use, but have economic benefits, according to research led by Burnet Institute and published in the journal Addiction.
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Therapy aids shift from IV to SC, improves outcomes
Thursday | Jan 29 2026NEW research from Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) and Halozyme Therapeutics is paving the way for a shift in how anti-cancer immunotherapy is delivered, making it less complex and painful for the patient, and potentially improving the treatment outcome for some medicines.
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