New and expanded cheaper medicines for severe and life-threatening conditions

20 July 2025 - Australians with post-transplant cytomegalovirus, breast, bile duct and urothelial cancer now have access to new and expanded ...

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Top level push for taxpayer funding of weight loss drugs gathers pace

3 July 2025 - Pharma giants are sweating on the results of a federal government request for guidance on adding weight ...

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Calls for 'missing piece' menopause drug to be added to the PBS

2 July 2025 - A key treatment which could help around one million middle-aged Australian women remains unaffordable to many ...

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Life-saving breast cancer drug now cheaper thanks to expansion of the PBS

1 July 2025 - A potentially life-saving treatment for early-stage breast cancer will become much more affordable for hundreds of ...

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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 July 2025

1 July 2025 - The July 2025 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...

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Australians with cystic fibrosis benefit from life changing expanded listing

24 June 2025 - More Australians living with cystic fibrosis will have affordable access to a life changing treatment option ...

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‘Barriers lifted’: cystic fibrosis treatment reaches final waiting patients

23 June 2025 - Ex-Wallabies player Nathan Charles has lived with cystic fibrosis for decades.  ...

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Research funding and more treatment options to support the fight against MND

9 June 2025 - The Australian Government is providing a further $4.5 million and listing another treatment to ensure the ...

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Government lists life-changing epilepsy drug fenfluramine on PBS

4 May 2025 - For the Sutton family, finding a drug that controlled four-year-old daughter Layla’s rare form of epilepsy was ...

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Come to grips’: fighting lymphoma from home

28 April 2025 - Australian patients with the most common form of lymphoma will for the first time have access ...

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Ketamine nasal spray to become cheaper for Australians with treatment-resistant depression

28 April 2025 - A nasal spray that uses a form of ketamine to treat stubborn depression will be added ...

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Doctors push for weight loss drugs to be added to the PBS

1 April 2025 - The cost of prescriptions for weight loss drugs is being brought into question, with doctors pushing ...

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New and expanded cheaper medicines

27 March 2025 - Australians with Cushing’s syndrome, retinal vein occlusion and psoriatic arthritis, leukaemia, and women needing contraception and menopause ...

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Government delivering even more choice for women's contraception, endometriosis, and IVF journeys

16 March 2025 - The Government is delivering even more choice for Australian women with new and amended listings for contraception, ...

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Life changing new drug available for elderly Australians with devastating eye condition

9 March 2025 - A life changing new drug is now available on the PBS for elderly Australians with a ...

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