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'Barriers in place': access to asthma medication key to reducing deaths
8 September 2019 - High school teacher Gabriel Wenman admits she was once terrible at taking her asthma medication. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Sep 2019
'No jab, no pay' threat prompts an extra 174,000 children to be vaccinated in one year
1 September 2019 - A threat to cut family tax benefits for Australians who did not vaccinate their children has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme restrictions on anti‐epileptic drug prescribing promote unsafe and outdated practice
1 July 2019 - The PBS urgently needs to update anti‐epileptic drug prescribing restrictions that put patients and prescribers at ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2019
Bev takes 14 pills a day. She's far from alone.
15 July 2019 - She is among the more than one-in-three Australians aged over 70 who take five or more different ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2019
Vaccine crisis leaves Australia’s immunisation record in tatters
9 July 2019 - Thousands of Australians are dying from the flu and meningococcal because lifesaving vaccines are not being approved, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jul 2019
Patients take outdated drugs because of PBS restrictions: UQ doctor
2 July 2019 - Patients are put at risk because the restrictions on drugs made by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jun 2019
Government crackdown on abuse of antibiotics
17 June 2019 - Doctors could be prevented from prescribing repeats of antibiotics as authorities consider radical plans to contain ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jun 2019
Biosimilar uptake drivers - etanercept
3 June 2019 - Information about Government initiatives to encourage the use of biosimilars is now available on the PBS website. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2019
PBS Pharmaceuticals in Hospitals Review
20 May 2019 - The Department of Health completed the PBS Pharmaceuticals in Hospitals Review to better understand how PBS medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 May 2019
Australia's GBMA launches hub for biosimilar education
13 May 2019 - In 2018, the Generic Biosimilar Medicines Association was awarded the Biosimilar Education Grant by the Australian government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2019
19,000 Australians now using PBS subsidised anti-HIV drugs
25 March 2019 - About 19,000 Australians have taken advantage of anti-HIV drugs in the first two years of groundbreaking ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2019
Lyrica, Pfizer, and how big pharma gets what it wants
23 March 2019 - In 2011, few had heard of Pfizer’s nerve-pain pill Lyrica. It was mostly confined to specialist ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2019
Biosimilar uptake drivers
5 February 2019 - Information about Government initiatives to encourage the use of biosimilars is now available on the PBS website. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Nov 2018
Report on the collection of under co-payment data 2017-18
5 November 2018 - The report on the collection of under co-payment data 2017-18 is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Nov 2018
Drug Utilisation Sub-Committee outcome statement - September 2018
2 November 2018 - The outcome statement from the September 2018 Drug Utilisation Sub Committee meeting is now available. ...