Trump takes aim at ‘foreign freeloading nations’ over drug prices in new threat to PBS

1 August 2025 - US President Donald Trump has blamed “foreign freeloading nations” for the high drug prices faced by ...

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Australia’s PBS must ‘absolutely’ be protected in trade talks, says Make America Healthy Again medical adviser Aseem Malhotra

26 July 2025 - The chief medical adviser to Make America Healthy Again campaign has defended Australia’s PBS, as the Trump ...

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Pfizer broadside on PBS productivity amid pharma tariff fears

16 July 2025 - Multinational conglomerate Pfizer has accused the PBS of “under­valuing” medical products in a submission to the ...

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Labor and Coalition in lockstep as Trump threatens to pull pharma tariffs forward

16 July 2025 - US President Donald Trump’s threat to bring forward planned tariffs of up to 200% on pharmaceuticals ...

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FDA embraces radical transparency by publishing complete response letters

10 July 2025 - The US FDA today published more than 200 decision letters, known as complete response letters.  ...

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FDA to issue new Commissioner’s national priority vouchers to companies supporting US national interests

17 June 2025 - The US FDA today announced its Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher program to enhance the health interests of ...

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No drug price pledges by Pfizer, others in talks with US Government, Pfizer CEO says

9 June 2025 - Pfizer and other drug companies have met with the Trump administration to discuss lowering US drug ...

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EMA 2024 annual report is published

10 June 2025 - The EMA’s annual report 2024 published today gives insights into the Agency’s strategic priorities and contributions ...

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Priorities for a new FDA

10 June 2025 - Why does it take more than 10 years for a new drug to come to market? Why ...

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FDA takes steps to enhance state importation programs to help lower prescription drug prices

21 May 2025 - The US FDA is continuing to take steps to help state importation programs provide safe, effective and ...

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Trump says he will sign executive order on drug price caps

11 May 2025 - President Trump said Sunday he will sign an executive order Monday to cap prescription drug and ...

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Rule of Two for faster access to medicines

3 April 2025 - Associate Health Minister David Seymour is welcoming Cabinet’s decision to enable medicines to be approved in ...

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Platform clinical trials for the efficient evaluation of multiple treatments

31 March 2025 - For some medical conditions, including conditions without effective treatments, multiple promising but unproven therapies may exist, with ...

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Bristol Myers Squibb receives positive CHMP opinion for peri-operative regimen of neo-adjuvant Opdivo (nivolumab) and chemotherapy followed by surgery and adjuvant Opdivo for resectable non-small cell lung cancer in patients with tumour cell PD-L1 expression ≥1%

28 March 2025 - Recommendation based on Phase 3 CheckMate -77T trial showing significant event-free survival improvement when compared to neoadjuvant ...

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American pharmaceutical boss does not support tariffs on Australian medicines

26 March 2025 - The head of one of America's largest pharmaceutical companies says he does not support tariffs on ...

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