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Italy's block on AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines prompts warning against 'vaccine protectionism' from Australian Government
9 March 2021 - The Australian Government says it wants to build a "coalition of countries" to pressure the European Union ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Mar 2021
Department of Health publishes Public Summary Document for medicine without a published outcome
8 March 2021 - The Department of Health has published a Public Summary Document for mometasone furoate with indacaterol maleate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Mar 2021
Is the Department of Health guilty of abusing its monopsonistic power?
8 March 2021 - In these times of heightened sensitivities, is it time the folks in Canberra got called out ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Mar 2021
‘We can’t do much with 50 doses’: GPs concerned about supply, capability of COVID-19 vaccine
7 March 2021 - With GPs to start vaccinating patients against COVID-19 in two weeks, one doctor in Melbourne’s west ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Mar 2021
Where is the corrigenda?
8 March 2021 - Can the Department of Health simply ignore PBAC advice? ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Mar 2021
Australian rollout to include 4,500 GP clinics as it moves to phase 1b
7 March 2021 - Local doctors will be brought in for phase 1b of the rollout, which targets older people ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2021
PBAC Public Summary Documents - November 2020 meeting
5 March 2021 - The Public Summary Documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the November 2020 PBAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Mar 2021
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot says vaccine is 100 per cent effective
5 March 2021 - The global head of AstraZeneca has declared the company’s vaccine is 100 per cent effective against ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Mar 2021
Italy, EU refuse AstraZeneca request to ship 250,000 doses of vaccine to Australia
5 March 2021 - Italy and the European Union have blocked a shipment of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine destined for Australia ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2021
CSL warns AstraZeneca booster shots not available until end of year
2 March 2021 - Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine maker CSL says it is open to making booster shots for AstraZeneca for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2021
Expanding access to life changing medicines for thousands of Australians
1 March 2021 - How many typos can you spot? I have clocked three. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2021
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 March 2021
1 March 2021 - The March 2021 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2021
The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine have arrived. What happens next?
28 February 2021 - Australia has doubled its coronavirus vaccine stocks after hundreds of thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2021
Eczema medicine Dupixent added to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
26 February 2021 - Eczema has a significant effect on sufferers’ physical and mental wellbeing, but the new listing of a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Feb 2021
The common medicines hit with shortages as COVID supply issues worsen
24 February 2021 - Australians are being forced to take desperate measures to track down prescription medications they need as ...