‘Life-changing’ eczema drug for children caught in $16,000/year PBS limbo

5 April 2026 - A prescription medication for a debilitating skin condition that is listed on the PBS for adults ...

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Butler ‘confident’ of CSL exemption as Australian drugs incur 100pc tariff

3 April 2026 - The Health Minister is hopeful the country’s largest biotech firm CSL will be exempt after Australia was ...

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Trump slaps 100pc tariffs on Australian drugs – with exceptions

3 April 2026 - Australian drug makers that do not build new factories in America and dramatically cut their prices ...

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Trump puts Australia’s drugs scheme, digital rules in firing line

1 April 2026 - Donald Trump’s top trade tsar claims Australia’s unfair drug pricing practices are undermining US innovation, warns ...

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Cheaper medicines for people fighting cancer and rare diseases

1 April 2026 - The Albanese Government is continuing to deliver cheaper medicines with Australians living with debilitating conditions including ...

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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 April 2026

1 April 2026 - The April 2026 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...

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Leading cancer drug subsidised for thousands of patients

29 March 2026 - Health Minister Mark Butler has expanded the PBS listing of a leading cancer drug, giving more than ...

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Expanded immunotherapy PBS listing to treat more cancers

29 March 2026 - The Albanese Government is continuing to deliver cheaper medicines with thousands more Australians living with advanced ...

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Agenda for the July 2026 PBAC meeting (25 March 2026)

25 March 2026 - The agenda for the July 2026 PBAC meeting is now available.  ...

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Public summary documents (first time decisions not to recommend and deferrals) – November 2025 PBAC meeting

20 March 2026 - The Public Summary Documents (first time decisions not to recommend and deferrals) from the November 2025 PBAC ...

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PBAC advice on equitable access to GLP-1 obesity treatments

17 March 2026 - On 6 March 2025, Minister Butler wrote to the PBAC to request the Committee’s advice on ...

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The end of cancer: how cell therapy breakthroughs have us on the edge of a cure

15 March 2026 - How rapid immunotherapy advancements could relegate killer cancers to the status of a ‘chronic disease’. ...

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Cutting-edge cancer treatment research heading offshore as local patients miss out

11 March 2026 - Newsreader Will McDonald is six years into his fight with aggressive prostate cancer. He wants all Australians ...

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New multi-indication PBS listing for two immunotherapy treatments from March 2026

1 March 2026 - Bristol Myers Squibb Australia confirms that Opdivo (nivolumab) and Yervoy (ipilimumab) will be listed on the ...

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Dying father pleads for cancer drug subsidy to ‘keep being a dad’

5 March 2026 - A North Queensland mother has travelled to Canberra to beg the Federal Government to save her ...

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