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Half yearly performance snapshot: July to December 2019
6 May 2020 - The TGA prepares an annual TGA Business Plan, which identifies the priority activities being undertaken over the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2020
Pharmaceutical giant’s plan to end Australia’s reliance on Indian and Chinese medicines after COVID-19
2 May 2020 - Australia’s dangerous dependence on India and China to make vital medicines for the sick has come to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Apr 2020
TGA publishes more information about medicine formulations
30 April 2020 - To improve access to important medicine information, the Therapeutic Goods Administration now publishes additional formulation details ...
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
Improved Consumer Medicine Information template
20 April 2020 - The Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 have been amended to support improved Consumer Medicine Information. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Apr 2020
Read about a new COVID-19 treatment study? It probably won't work.
6 April 2020 - Most new drugs that show promise as potential COVID-19 cures will not end up working, scientists ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Apr 2020
Amendments to the new restrictions on prescribing hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19
6 April 2020 - On 24 March 2020, new restrictions came into effect limiting the health practitioners who could initiate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Apr 2020
Australian scientists discover head lice drug kills coronavirus in lab
4 April 2020 - Melbourne researchers say an anti-parasitic drug commonly used to combat head lice has been found to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Apr 2020
COVID-19: Australia to get virus ‘miracle drug’ soon
2 April 2020 - Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced he has struck a deal to get a “miracle drug” touted ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2020
TGA publishes another AusPAR for Opdivo (nivolumab)
31 March 2020 - First apparent TGA rejection for nivolumab. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2020
COVID-19: existing drugs may be key to vaccine
26 March 2020 - Repurposing existing drugs to tackle the coronavirus has key advantages over developing a therapy from scratch: ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2020
New restrictions on prescribing hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19
24 March 2020 - In recent days there has been considerable focus on the potential for hydroxychloroquine and the similar ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2020
The drug helping coronavirus patients
24 March 2020 - A flash of potential good news from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic: ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2020
Dentists banned from prescribing potential COVID-19 drug to self, family
24 March 2020 - The Australian government has rushed through an emergency regulation banning dentists from prescribing an arthritis drug ...
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 ...