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Spinal muscular atrophy: push to get $3.5 million drug approved to save babies’ lives
4 April 2021 - Parents whose children have died or suffer from spinal muscular atrophy are fighting to make breakthrough gene ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Apr 2019
Future in cancer treatment arrives for Australian children and young adults battling leukaemia
15 April 2019 - Hon Greg Hunt MP Minister for Health today announces availability of novel life-saving cancer treatment CAR-T ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2019
Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to be home of 'the next great wave in treatment'
25 March 2019 - A new form of cancer treatment that uses cell therapy to attack the disease will become ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Oct 2018
Leukaemia treatment: patients ‘cured’ by new CAR-T therapy
12 October 2018 - Patients battling deadly leukaemia will be “cured” by a breathtaking new therapy that can kill cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2018
Cancer-killing CAR T-cell immunotherapy to become more accessible to patients
29 May 2018 - Cancer patients would have access to an off-the-shelf immunotherapies to reprogram their immune system to fight ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2016
Summary of the outcomes from the PBAC July 2016 meeting
19 August 2016 - The outcomes from the PBAC July 2016 meeting are now in the public domain. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Apr 2016
PBAC to consider first submission for a cellular therapy in July
28 April 2016 - The PBAC will consider a major submission from Amgen for talimogene laherparepvec (Imlygic) at its next scheduled ...