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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 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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2020
Clinical trial processes
31 March 2020 - The TGA has received a number of enquiries about processes for clinical trials relating to COVID-19 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2020
COVID-19: frontline virus fighters to trial TB vaccine
27 March 2020 - Thousands of Australian doctors, nurses and health workers will be given a tuberculosis vaccine in a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2020
Coronavirus drug to be trialled on frontline health workers
25 March 2020 - Australia is moving towards a new coronavirus preventive trial for frontline healthcare workers as the number of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2020
Rush to raise funds for large COVID-19 drug trial in Australian hospitals
23 March 2020 - Australian researchers behind a new clinical trial of two drugs to treat COVID-19 are desperate to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2019
Clinical trials to combat reproductive cancers
9 September 2019 - The Australian Government is investing up to $15 million in targeted clinical trials to improve treatments and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2019
Labor to fast-track leukaemia drug trials
17 April 2019 - Patients with deadly blood cancers will get faster access to potentially life-saving drug trials if Labor ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Apr 2019
The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial: what it is and when it should be used
1 April 2019 - The basic premise of a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial is that all clusters start in the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Mar 2019
Cluster randomised trials
4 March 2019 - Cluster randomised trials randomise groups of individuals rather than individuals themselves to interventions. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2019
Sweet smell of success for patients taking the sugar pill
15 January 2019 - A placebo is anything that seems to offer a real medical treatment, but doesn’t. It could ...