‘Life changing’ multi-cancer drug funding proposal in jeopardy

3 November 2024 - Australian cancer patients dying in wait for affordable access to a life changing treatment have been dealt ...

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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 November 2024 update

1 November 2024 - The November 2024 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...

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Public Summary Documents – July 2024 PBAC meeting

1 November 2024 - The Public Summary Documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the July 2024 PBAC ...

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Process for managing the March 2025 PBAC meeting agenda

30 October 2024 - The PBAC has considered the issues arising from the current notice of intent advice of industry ...

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Submissions to the March 2025 PBAC meeting

24 October 2024 - The Department of Health and Aged Care has received notification that pharmaceutical companies plan to bring ...

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Outcomes of the September 2024 PBAC intracycle meeting

18 October 2024 - The outcomes from the September 2024 PBAC intracycle meeting are now available. ...

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Agenda for the November 2024 PBAC meeting (version 5)

11 October 2024 - Version 5 of the agenda for the November 2024 PBAC meeting is now available. ...

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Heart attack survivors find new treatment for recurrence risk

4 October 2024 - Mike Lynch was only 12 when his mother died of cardiovascular disease, in the years following he ...

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New cheaper medicines for auto-immune conditions, cancer and heart disease

8 October 2024 - Australians with types of vasculitis, leukaemia, heart disease, ulcerative colitis and arthritis now have access to ...

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World first cancer treatment now accessible for hundreds more Aussies as prices slashed with addition to the PBS

4 October 2024 - A world-first cancer treatment, discovered in Melbourne, has been added to the PBS. ...

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Securing supply of PrEP

1 October 2024 - The Australian Government is ensuring thousands of Australians, with or at risk of contracting HIV, are ...

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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 October 2024

1 October 2024 - The October 2024 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...

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Cost barriers to medication access in Australia: an analysis of the Patient Experience Survey in context

30 September 2024 - In November 2023, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its 2022–23 Patient Experience Survey data. ...

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More Australians now eligible for free shingles vaccination

22 September 2024 - The Albanese Government is expanding one of the most comprehensive and widely available shingles vaccination programs ...

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The impact of generic entry of pharmaceuticals in Australia

20 September 2024 - In this article, we estimate the initial and temporal impacts of generic entry on benchmark drug prices ...

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