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Push for blood cancer breakthrough
1 September 2019 - Health Minister Greg Hunt says a new task force will help with the management of blood ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Aug 2019
'We're not selling fruit and veg here': Why pharmacists, doctors and retailers are fighting over your medicines
30 August 2019 - They have been described as the most powerful lobby group in Australia, feared by politicians from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Aug 2019
How a powerful lobby group is pushing up PBS medicine prices
30 August 2019 - Aussies are being forced to pay up to six times more for vital medicines despite being listed ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Agenda for the November 2019 PBAC meeting
28 August 2019 - The agenda for the November 2019 PBAC meeting is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Aug 2019
Family’s joy at access to drug for son
27 August 2019 - A Bunbury mother says she has more hope for her son’s future following a recommendation to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Aug 2019
PBS support for end of life care and opioid dependency
25 August 2019 - The Australian Government will invest over $40 million to provide affordable access to two new medicine listings ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Aug 2019
Opioid addiction meds to be free under PBS
25 August 2019 - The more than 110,000 Australians struggling with opioid dependency could have access to medication to help ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2019
Recommendations made by the PBAC - July 2019
23 August 2019 - The recommendations from the July 2019 PBAC meeting are now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2019
Australia’s deadliest cancer has a new treatment
23 August 2019 - A powerful new combination treatment for Australia’s deadliest cancer has been approved for subsidy in a move ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2019
‘Life saving’ news for Gold Coast family after little Beau allowed to take drug Orkambi to slow cystic fibrosis diagnosis
23 August 2019 - When this Gold Coast girl blew out candles for her 10th birthday yesterday, she did not wish ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
Show me the money
21 August 2019 - PBS a huge area of savings compared to other government-administered services including medical and hospital costs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2019
Life-saving cancer treatments could help 41,000 Aussies but they aren’t funded
20 August 2019 - Alisanne Ride was given six months to live before she started an expensive treatment that eliminated the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Aug 2019
Push for 24 hour convenience stores to sell prescription medicines
10 August 2019 - The peak body for convenience stores has backed calls to relax the strict rules governing pharmacies ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Aug 2019
Patients push for transplant medications to be free in Australia
2 August 2019 - A woman who received a life-saving heart transplant now has to spent $250 on medication each month ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2019
Mylan and Biocon launch first trastuzumab biosimilar Ogivri in Australia
1 August 2019 - Biocon and Mylan today announced the launch in Australia of Ogivri (trastuzumab), a biosimilar to Herceptin ...