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PBAC Public Summary Documents - November 2020 meeting
5 March 2021 - The Public Summary Documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the November 2020 PBAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2021
TGA adopts Access Consortium guidance for fast-tracking authorisations of modified COVID-19 vaccines for variant
5 March 2021 - TGA has adopted guidance developed by the Access Consortium - a coalition of regulatory authorities from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Mar 2021
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot says vaccine is 100 per cent effective
5 March 2021 - The global head of AstraZeneca has declared the company’s vaccine is 100 per cent effective against ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Mar 2021
Italy, EU refuse AstraZeneca request to ship 250,000 doses of vaccine to Australia
5 March 2021 - Italy and the European Union have blocked a shipment of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine destined for Australia ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2021
Expanding access to life changing medicines for thousands of Australians
1 March 2021 - How many typos can you spot? I have clocked three. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2021
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 March 2021
1 March 2021 - The March 2021 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2021
The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine have arrived. What happens next?
28 February 2021 - Australia has doubled its coronavirus vaccine stocks after hundreds of thousands of doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2021
Eczema medicine Dupixent added to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
26 February 2021 - Eczema has a significant effect on sufferers’ physical and mental wellbeing, but the new listing of a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Feb 2021
The common medicines hit with shortages as COVID supply issues worsen
24 February 2021 - Australians are being forced to take desperate measures to track down prescription medications they need as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Feb 2021
TGA reviewing COVID-19 tests to rule out issues diagnosing variants
24 February 2021 - Adjunct Professor John Skerritt has tasked the nation’s medical regulator with ensuring COVID-19 tests are successfully ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Feb 2021
DoH updates agenda for March 2021 PBAC meeting
23 February 2021 - We are now up to version 5. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Feb 2021
New Pfizer COVID vaccine doses hit Australia as Anthony Albanese lines up for jab
23 February 2021 - An additional 166,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine have arrived in Australia, as Labor leader Anthony Albanese ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Feb 2021
Proposal leaves surgeons bound by private health
23 February 2021 - Australians paying thousands of dollars a year in health insurance could have their access to life-changing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Feb 2021
Chemist giants are testing the rules
22 February 2021 - Health regulators are preparing to challenge the increasing dominance of Australia’s pharmacy giants, with threats to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Feb 2021
Prescription medicines: applications under evaluation
22 February 2021 - The TGA has updated its list of applications for new medicines or new uses for existing ...