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CSL ramps up development of COVID-19 plasma treatment
6 May 2020 - Australia’s biggest health company CSL has confirmed it will immediately begin development of plasma-derived therapy to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2020
Bill Gates donates $10 million to Australian trial of immune-boosting vaccine
5 May 2020 - Bill Gates has donated $10 million to an Australian trial of a vaccine that researchers hope ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2020
COVID-19: Australia’s pledge to $12 billion virus fight, WHO issues vaccine warning
5 May 2020 - Scott Morrison has promised more than $352 million as part of a global coronavirus vaccine fundraiser, but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2020
Australia, Canada, Singapore, Switzerland Consortium regulators pledge support to tackle COVID-19
5 May 2020 - The Australia, Canada, Singapore, Switzerland Consortium (ACSS) regulatory authorities have pledged their collective support in countering ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2020
Pharmaceutical giant’s plan to end Australia’s reliance on Indian and Chinese medicines after COVID-19
2 May 2020 - Australia’s dangerous dependence on India and China to make vital medicines for the sick has come to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Apr 2020
University of Queensland says COVID-19 vaccine ready by September
29 April 2020 - An Australian vaccine for COVID-19 could be ready by September, its developers say. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Apr 2020
Medicines Australia encourages 22,000 plus employees of the medicines industry to download the COVIDSafe app
29 April 2020 - As an economic and manufacturing leader in Australia, we pledge to encourage all our 22,000 + ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Apr 2020
COVID-19: Queensland vaccine researchers make crucial breakthrough
29 April 2020 - An experimental Australian vaccine for COVID-19 has generated immunity levels in preclinical trials exceeding those recorded in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Apr 2020
Clive Palmer’s coronavirus newspaper ad slammed as ‘dangerous’ and ‘misleading’
28 April 2020 - Clive Palmer has taken out a massive three page advertisement in the Herald Sun this morning, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Apr 2020
Medicines Australia welcomes COVID-19 tracking app
27 April 2020 - Medicines Australia has today welcomed the COVID-19 tracking app COVIDSafe, which will help keep the community ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Apr 2020
Mesoblast claims coronavirus treatment breakthrough
24 April 2020 - Stem cell-focused biotech Mesoblast has claimed a breakthrough in its experimental therapy to treat patients with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Apr 2020
MMR vaccine commonly used to protect against mumps, measles and rubella could be effective against coronavirus
22 April 2020 - Doctors believe a childhood vaccine commonly used to protect against mumps, measles and rubella could be effective ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2020
The controversial malaria drug has been approved for an official trial
21 April 2020 - A massive new clinical trial has begun in Australia to test if an HIV or a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Apr 2020
COVID-19 treatment remedsivir is not available for Australian trial
20 April 2020 - A landmark Australian COVID-19 trial will not get to test the most promising therapy, as it can ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Apr 2020
Why a decades old TB vaccine is getting attention in the fight against COVID-19
14 April 2020 - In the desperate search for ammunition to fend off the COVID-19 pandemic, a decades old tuberculosis ...