Novel drug for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GIST) to be Launched in Au, NZ, SEA

A NEW therapy to treat advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) will be available to patients in Australia,...

November 6, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia secures further 50M doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Two more COVID-19 vaccines have been secured for the Australian population under new agreements, bringing the Australian...

November 5, 2020 | Thursday | News
Taiwan, Australia, Japan & US stage GCTF virtual workshop on combating COVID-19 related crimes

A virtual workshop on combating illegal activity related to COVID-19 was held by Taiwan, Australia, Japan and the U.S....

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia designs model to link heart disease with T2D

Researchers from Australia's University of Sydney’s School of Project Management within the Faculty...

November 4, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Abbott introduces 3D cardiac mapping platform in Australia

Abbott has received CE Mark and approval in Australia for its new EnSite X EP System, and is launching the system throug...

November 3, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia to roll out COVID-19 mental health campaign with $10M investment

The Australian Government will roll out a COVID-19 mental health campaign How’s your head today? to urge people to...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia reports highest childhood vaccination rates in 2020

On 1 Nov 2020, Australia reported the highest recorded childhood vaccination, with new figures showing four quarters of ...

November 2, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia develops small brain device to help paralysed patients

A tiny device the size of a small paperclip has been shown to help patients with upper limb paralysis to text, email and...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | News
Daewoong pharma partners with Tufts medical center for Ph 2 trial with Niclosamide

Daewoong Pharmaceutical announced on 26 Oct 2020 that the collaborative clinical research agreement betwe...

October 30, 2020 | Friday | News
Asieris announces approval for Ph 1 trial of bladder cancer drug in Australia

Asieris Pharmaceuticals, a China-based biotech company specializing in the development and commercialization of new...

October 29, 2020 | Thursday | News
Cutting-edge tech by Australia propels cardiac surgery forward

In a world-first preclinical study, Australian researchers have shown it could be possible to implant a potentially life...

October 28, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests more than $86M for better access to life saving medicines

From 1 November, the Australian government will invest more than $86 million over the next four years to provide greater...

October 26, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia invests $13.6M to support mental health of new and expectant parents

The Australian Government is supporting expectant and new parents providing $13.6 million through its $43...

October 23, 2020 | Friday | News
Synergy Medical takes pharmacy automation to Australia

Synergy Medical has recently announced a partnership with MED-ID. Based in Quebec, Synergy Medical has been designi...

October 22, 2020 | Thursday | News
DKSH integrates Axieo to assist APAC pharma market

DKSH, a leading Market Expansion Services provider with a focus on Asia, has successfully completed the integration of...

October 21, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to develop NSQPH standards

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care is developing "National Safety and Quality Primary Health...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia's Kazia enrolls its investigational drugs in glioblastoma clinical study

Kazia Therapeutics Limited, an Australian oncology-focused biotechnology company, announced that it has executed a defin...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia invests $8.5 M to continue long-term women's health study

The government is funding the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH), the nation’s largest ...

October 19, 2020 | Monday | News
See-Mode Technologies receives FDA clearance for AI software

See-Mode Technologies, a MedTech startup based in Singapore and Australia that seeks to empower clin...

October 16, 2020 | Friday | News
Bausch Health, BHVI join hands for myopia control contact lens

Bausch Health Companies Inc. and Bausch + Lomb, its leading global eye health business, along with BHVI, an Australian n...

October 16, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia invests $21.2 M to reform hearing services

The Australian Government will implement key initiatives from the Roadmap for Hearing Health, investing $21.2 million ov...

October 15, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia identifies genetic risk factors for prostate cancer

Monash University’s Precision Medicine research group has discovered multiple new genetic risk factors that make m...

October 14, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Singapore digitally optimizes culture conditions for cell therapy

Cellular therapy is a powerful strategy to produce patient-specific, personalized cells to treat many diseases, includin...

October 13, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia leads project on pain research

Why back pain persists in some cases but not others will be the focus of an international study, which has received more...

October 12, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia moves ahead with aged care research project

Flinders University has been awarded the contract to develop the first stage of the Australian Government’s new $3...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia invests $2.3 B on native COVID-19 vaccine

The Australian Government is investing a total of $2.3 billion to support home-grown researchers and manufacturers to de...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia delivers $115.5 B in 2020–21 budget for healthcare

The Australian government is delivering a record $115.5 billion in 2020–21 and $467 billion over the for...

October 6, 2020 | Tuesday | News
APFFA's toolkit assist physicians to aid secondary osteoporotic fractures

The Asia Pacific Fragility Fracture Alliance (APFFA) on 28 September 2020 launched a comprehensive educational tool...

October 2, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia adopting digital transformation to deliver more timely medicines

The Australia government is making significant digital reforms to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to cut red ...

October 2, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia invents app for analysing coronavirus genome

A new mobile app has made it possible to analyse the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on a smartphone in less than half an...

September 30, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $9M for cancer research in children, young adults

The Australian government is providing $9 million to support research into the causes, biology and progression of cancer...

September 29, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia announces first strategic action plan for blood cancers

As part of the 2020/21 Budget, the Australian government will provide more than $600,000 to the Leukaemia Foundation as ...

September 28, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia invests $25 M to improve safe use of medicines through pharmacy

The Australian Government will invest $25 million through the landmark Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) for rese...

September 25, 2020 | Friday | News
Avance Clinical expands eClinical solutions for biotech clinical trials at BioPharm America

The leading Australian CRO for biotechs, and Frost & Sullivan 2020 Asia-Pacific CRO Market Leadership Award winner, ...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia now eligible to purchase COVID-19 vaccine doses through COVAX

The Australian Government has joined the COVAX facility, enabling the purchase of COVID-19 vaccine doses as they become ...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $6M in new COVID-19 vaccine projects

Australia will invest almost $6 million in additional funding from the Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) Coron...

September 21, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia has simplified chemotherapy prescribing arrangements

Australia's Department of Health has simplified the way the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines can be p...

September 17, 2020 | Thursday | News
Advertising of first aid creams containing bufexamac to cease in Australia

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is reminding advertisers that first aid creams containing bufexamac c...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Genomic leaders to create Australia’s first national COVID-19 tracking system

Illumina has recently announced that the Australian public health laboratories will aim to sequence the virus genomes of...

September 16, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia launches new COVID-19 mental health clinics

The Australian government has announced that Victoria province now will have access to additional mental health support ...

September 15, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia releases digital health skills and training plan

A national digital health skills and training plan has been released to help the Australian health workforce use technol...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia inks $3.7 M deal for nasal swab kits

The Australian Government has signed a $3.7 million contract with a Melbourne company to supply sterile nasal swab kits ...

September 11, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia inks $1.7B worth agreement for COVID-19 vaccine

A free COVID-19 vaccine will be available progressively throughout 2021 in Australia, if promising trials prove successf...

September 8, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia to create a roadmap for health services

Australis's Queensland government project will use the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator to help health workers i...

September 9, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia deals with AstraZeneca for AZD1222 COVID-19 investigational vaccine

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AZD1222, as a potential candidate for an emergency use authorization (EU...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
SpeeDx, Nepean Hospital receive funding for respiratory virus biomarker testing

Innovative molecular diagnostic solution developer SpeeDx Pty. Ltd. based in Sydney has collaborated with researchers in...

September 7, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia to invest $16.9M on health & medical research

The Australian government announced an investment of more than $1 billion in groundbreaking medical research through the...

September 4, 2020 | Friday | News
Bridgewest acquires Pfizer manufacturing facility in Australia

The Bridgewest Group, a premier private investment company that focuses on disrupting industries through innovation anno...

September 3, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia gives additional funding to reinforce aged care sector

The Australian Government will provide an additional $563.3 million to extend support for the aged care sector’s r...

September 2, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Myomo® Receives First Australian Insurance Authorization for MyoPro™

Myomo, Inc., a wearable medical robotics company that offers increased functionality for those suffering from neurologic...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Luina Bio announces new bio-manufacturing GMP & development facility expansion

Luina Bio, one of Australia’s most experienced biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) org...

September 1, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia brings hope for type 1 diabetes treatment

An international team including the University of Sydney, Australia has reprogrammed human stem cells to generate insuli...

August 31, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia discovers potential new treatment for brain cancer

A recent study by Monash University, Australia has uncovered a potential new drug that may lead to new treatments for co...

August 28, 2020 | Friday | News
Novotech receives "2020 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific CRO Company of the Year’

Novotech, the largest biotech specialist CRO in the Asia-Pacific region, was awarded the ‘2020 Frost & Su...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Graft versus host disease market to grow at 8.2% CAGR across 5 APAC markets in 10 years

The market for graft versus host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis and treatment in the five growth markets (5GM*) in the Asia-...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia studies antimicrobial technology to eradicate SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces

  The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition comprised of the world's preeminent human and animal, announced that...

August 27, 2020 | Thursday | News
Brain Protection Company receives $1M grant for dementia study

The Brain Protection Company Pty Ltd, a privately-held medical device company in Australia developing novel therapies an...

August 26, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia establishes aged care response centre

In an Australian first, the federal government has established the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre and a h...

August 25, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia shares low-dose ivermectin therapy protocol for COVID-19

Australian triple therapy specialist Professor Thomas Borody, internationally famous for curing peptic ulcers using a tr...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
AnteoTech develops high-sensitivity 15-min COVID-19 antigen test

Brisbane based AnteoTech Ltd has successfully developed proof-of-concept COVID-19 antigen and Flu A&B point-of-care ...

August 24, 2020 | Monday | News
MedTech startup See-Mode Technologies secures $7M funding

See-Mode Technologies, a medtech startup headquartered in Australia, and with operations in Singapore, has announced tha...

August 21, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia to supply Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for free

Australia has inked an agreement with British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to supply Australians with the ...

August 19, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia approves COVID-19 test by Co-Diagnostics

US based Co-Diagnostics, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company with a unique, patented platform for the development of d...

August 17, 2020 | Monday | News
Australia invites applications to open regional cancer centres

Public and private service providers are invited to apply for grants totalling $45.5 million, to develop regional radiat...

August 14, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia offers new scheme for cancer & epilepsy patients

Australians with certain cancers and infants with severe epilepsy will benefit from new medications being listed or exte...

August 12, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia injects $1.87M to accelerate clinical trials for Q Fever vaccine

Australia is progressing with its new and improved Q Fever vaccine at pre-clinical trials following a $1.87 million inje...

August 11, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia provides mental health support to tackle COVID-19

The Australian Government is providing 10 additional Medicare-subsidised psychological therapy sessions for Australians ...

August 10, 2020 | Monday | News
“Luina Bio continues to support several projects with the aim to combat the COVID-19 pandemic "

Australia based biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing organisation Luina Bio has recently partnered with XING Technol...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | Opinion
Australian develops effective Triple Therapy to treat COVID-19

Australia's The Centre for Digestive Disease (CDD) Medical Director Professor Thomas Borody MB, BS, BSc(Med), MD, PhD, D...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
Colorcon opens new technical centre in Melbourne

US based Colorcon, a world leader in the development and supply of film coating systems and excipients, has announced th...

August 7, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia’s largest medical cannabis deal to relieve 30+ physical ailments

A record number of Australian GPs and patients now have greater access to Medical Cannabis after a landmark deal was sig...

August 6, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia issues new information for vaccine manufacturers

Vaccine manufacturers seeking listing on the National Immunisation Program (NIP) Schedule must ask for advice from ...

August 5, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Biocomposites signs new exclusive distributor in Australia

UK based Biocomposites, an international medical devices company that engineers, manufactures and markets world leading ...

August 4, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Atomo Diagnostics collaborates with Access Bio for rapid COVID-19 testing

Australia based Atomo Diagnostics has announced that it has signed a binding agreement with US-based diagnostics special...

August 3, 2020 | Monday | News
Affinity’s COVID-19 antibodies ready for clinical trials

Melbourne-based Affinity Biosciences Pty Ltd (Affinity) has lodged a pre-publication submission to the scientific journa...

July 31, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia's MRFF reaches maturity at $20 B

The Australian government’s landmark Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) has reached maturity at $20 billion. This...

July 30, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia accelerates diabetes and CVD research

The Australian government is backing cutting-edge research into two of the most prominent health conditions that affect ...

July 29, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia invests $18.8 M to supercharge digital health technologies

Australian government is investing $18.8 million to supercharge the discovery of better treatments for cancer, epilepsy,...

July 27, 2020 | Monday | News
Joimax expands presence in Australia

Joimax®, the German-based market leader in technologies and training methods for full-endoscopic and minimally invas...

July 28, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia approves remdesivir as first treatment option for COVID-19

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Division of the Australian Department of Health, has granted pr...

July 24, 2020 | Friday | News
UQ begins human dosing of COVID-19 vaccine

The next critical phase for Australia's University of Queensland’s COVID-19 vaccine is underway – with the r...

July 23, 2020 | Thursday | News
Avance Clinical Contracted for Atossa Therapeutics AT-301 Nasal Spray Clinical Study

The leading Australian CRO for biotechs and Frost & Sullivan 2020 Asia-Pacific CRO Market Leadership Award winner Av...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
BellaSeno initiates human trials of 'absorbable soft tissue reconstruction scaffold (Senella)'

BellaSeno GmbH, an ISO 13485-certified clinical-stage medtech company developing absorbable scaffolds using additiv...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Monash University sets up new industry training centre

Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) in Australia is leading a collaboration of academic and industry part...

July 22, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Australia develops breakthrough blood test for COVID-19 detection

The research team, led by Bioresource Processing Institute of Australia (BioPRIA) and Monash University’...

July 21, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australian Government Injects $13.6m on Innovative Cancer Treatments trials

In early June 2020, Australia’s Department of Health offered $13.6 million to support 10 clinical trials rese...

July 17, 2020 | Friday | News
India discusses bilateral health co-operation with Australia

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Government of India had a digital interaction with his ...

July 16, 2020 | Thursday | News
Clinuvel launches second afamelanotide formulation

Australia based CLINUVEL Pharmaceuticals, has announced PRÉNUMBRA®, the Company’s second afamelanotide ...

July 15, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Luina Bio, XING to bring in fast SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic kit

Australia based Luina Bio is pleased to announce they have been selected to partner with XING Technologies (Brisbane) to...

July 14, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Carromex unveils leads for rapid drug analysis and discovery

Carromex, a mathematical research-based innovation company based in Australia, unveiled a new cloud-based pharmaceu...

July 13, 2020 | Monday | News
Avance Clinical Wins Frost & Sullivan “2020 Asia-Pacific CRO Market Leadership Award”

The leading Australian CRO for biotechs, Avance Clinical, accepted the prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2020 Asia-Pacifi...

July 9, 2020 | Thursday | News
CSL Behring evaluates monoclonal Ab for respiratory distress

Australia based CSL Limited's part, CSL Behring has announced that the first patient has been enrolled in its ...

July 8, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Affinity discovers potent SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

Melbourne-based Affinity Biosciences Pty Ltd (Affinity), a privately held company focused on antibody discovery for canc...

July 3, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia starts new projects to deal with drug resistance

Australia’s commitment to support the health and wellbeing of the Pacific Island neighbours remains steadfast, wit...

July 2, 2020 | Thursday | News
Australia invests $19M in AI health research projects

The Australian Government is investing $19 million in transformative medical research projects using game-changing appli...

July 1, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Alterity meets US FDA for ATH434 pathway to treat Multiple System Atrophy

Alterity Therapeutics announced that it has received guidance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in relation...

June 30, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia to study first interventional neuromodulation platform

US based Synchron Inc., a neurovascular bioelectronic medicine company, has announced that the University of Melbou...

June 29, 2020 | Monday | News
Neoteryx gets blood collection device registered in Australia

The Mitra® microsampling device from US company Neoteryx has been registered as a Class I in vitro diagnostic (IVD) ...

June 30, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Australia pitches $12M more for CVD research

The Australian government, together with the National Heart Foundation, is announcing a further $12 million for research...

June 26, 2020 | Friday | News
Australia invests over $5.7M in traumatic brain injury research

The Australian Government is investing over $5.7 million to further develop traumatic brain injury research, aimed at im...

June 25, 2020 | Thursday | News

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