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Labor fulfils vow to cut cost of scripts
21 October 2022 - Labor will list four new medicines on the PBS from November to offer Australians cheaper treatments ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Oct 2022
PBS minimum stockholding requirements
21 October 2022 - Amendments made by the National Health Amendment Act 2021 give effect to the commitments in the new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2022
MSAC recommends targeted carrier testing of certain ethic people for severe monogenic conditions
20 October 2022 - An 'eventful' week for Jewish people in Australia. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2022
Consultation on the revised PBS post-market review framework
20 October 2022 - The Department of Health and Aged Care is inviting stakeholders to provide feedback on a revised ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2022
Department of Health tweaks the agenda for November 2022 PBAC meeting
19 October 2022 - Two minor changes made the day after the release of version 3. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2022
COVID-19 vaccine safety report (20 October 2022)
20 October 2022 - To 16 October 2022, the TGA has received 705 reports which have been assessed as likely to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2022
TGA provisionally approves Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for use as a booster dose in individuals 12 years and older
20 October 2022 - On 19 October 2022, the TGA provisionally approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax (elasomeran), for use as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Oct 2022
MSAC publishes outcome for Mackenzie's mission
19 October 2022 - Mackenzie’s Mission is a research study providing reproductive genetic carrier screening to up to 10,000 couples across ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Oct 2022
MSAC publishes agenda for February 2023 ESC meeting
19 October 2022 - The MSAC Secretariat has published a list of applications scheduled to be considered by the ESC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Oct 2022
Women call for 'life-changing' medicinal cannabis oil to be added to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
18 October 2022 - At 79 years old, Trish Fisher still suffers from excruciating pain from a motorbike accident in her ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Oct 2022
Department of Health and Aged Care publishes revised agenda for November 2022 PBAC meeting
18 October 2022 - Version 3 notes 9 amendments, including the withdrawal of a resubmission for a new medicine. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Oct 2022
MSAC finally recommends genomic testing for certain women with breast cancer
18 October 2022 - A third application from Mryriad Genetics seeking the MBS listing of its gene expression profiling test ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2022
Calls for TGA to withdraw Covid drug approval
17 October 2022 - The medicines regulator is facing calls to withdraw its provisional approval for the antiviral drug molnupiravir ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2022
Medicare rorts expose inflated bulk billing rates
18 October 2022 - Systemic rorting of Medicare is artificially inflating official statistics that claim almost nine out of 10 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2022
Medicare reports
17 October 2022 - Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler has issued the following statement regarding Medicare reporting. ...