Audrey Ashman’s bone treatment for rare genetic disease known as XLH denied government subsidy

24 October 2021 - Audrey Ashman loves to ballet dance and plays with her brothers — but she needs a special ...

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The challenges of inadequate financial support for Australians with cancer

21 October 2021 - The publicly funded Medicare system in Australia has been recognised as a leading universal health care model. ...

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DoH publishes yet another revised version of the agenda for the November 2021 PBAC meeting

25 October 2021 - We make this version number 10. ...

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Breast cancer treatment expanded on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

24 October 2021 - The Morrison Government is helping improve access to an important treatment for Australians battling a form of ...

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Tasmania's Pharmacy Guild wants antiviral COVID-19 pills available in all pharmacies

20 October 2021 - Tasmania has a stockpile of two different antiviral pill products which are sitting in the Royal ...

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Strategies for generic/biosimilar market entry in Australia

19 October 2021 - After surviving the Great Patent Cliff of 2011–2016, the pharma/biopharma industry finds itself in the Second Great ...

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Australia secures additional COVID-19 treatments

17 October 2021 - The Australian Government has secured access to two additional COVID-19 treatments to support the National Plan to ...

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Recommendations made by the PBAC – September 2021 intracycle meeting

15 October 2021 - First PBAC recommendation for a new gene therapy. ...

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Recommendations made between March 2021 and November 2021 PBAC meetings

15 October 2021 -  Recommendations made by the PBAC between the March 2021 and November 2021 have been published. ...

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Updates to the procedure guidance for listing medicines on the PBS

15 October 2021 - The Department has updated Section 5.8 New brand of existing pharmaceutical item submissions (not requiring PBAC consideration) ...

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Pharmacists opt out of third shot as doses of vaccine set to expire

14 October 2021 - The rollout of third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to thousands of immunocompromised people has been ...

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Vaccinations can end political blame game: CSL

13 October 2021 - CSL chief Paul Perreault has warned that the politicisation of Covid-19 is ­fuelling vaccination hesitancy as ...

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DoH revises agenda ahead of new month's PBAC meeting

12 October 2021 - One minor change. ...

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Review of the National Medicines Policy

11 October 2021 - The call for submissions closed on Friday 8 October 2021 and a total of 107 submissions have ...

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Docs ‘use rubber stamp for drugs’

9 October 2021 - Pharmacists have raised the alarm over the influence of a US pharmaceutical corporation on Australian doctors ...

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