Australia gives recognition to India's Covaxin & China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has determined that Covaxin (manufactured by Bhar...

November 1, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia develops bionic technology to assist people with nerve damage

A shoe insole using bionic technology to help people with nerve damage maintain their balance has been designed by Unive...

October 29, 2021 | Friday | News
Clinical trial for generalised anxiety disorder receives ethics approval in Australia

Monash University in Australia has obtained ethics approval for a world-first clinical trial investigating psilocybin-as...

October 28, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster dose

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has approved a booster dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for i...

October 27, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia makes breakthrough in vaccine development to prevent hookworm infection

There’s been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection, a parasite ...

October 26, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia launches new tool to explain COVID-19 risks

A calculator to help people understand their risk factors for COVID-19 infection and vaccination has been launched by th...

October 25, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia invests $85M to find solutions for major questions in human health

Seventeen multidisciplinary research teams will each receive $5 million in funding from the Australian government to fin...

October 22, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia boosts stem cell research with grants worth $25M

The government is boosting Australian led stem cell research through $25 million in grants, to help find and develop inn...

October 21, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia's iQ Group offers saliva glucose biosensor to replace invasive finger-prick

Australia-based iQ Group Global, on behalf of its subsidiary, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (LSBD), has ann...

October 20, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Australia explores 'cell fitness' for predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients

Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID-19 patients, according to a University ...

October 19, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia secures access to two additional COVID-19 treatments

The Australian government has secured access to two additional COVID-19 treatments to support the National Plan to Trans...

October 18, 2021 | Monday | News
Australia approves COVID-19 rapid antigen self-tests

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the medicine and therapeutic regulatory agency of the Australian Government,...

October 15, 2021 | Friday | News
Australia's Topelia to raises $25M in Series A funding for Antiviral Triple Therapy (ATT)

Topelia Australia, a biotech company established to commercialize a novel ATT treatment for Australians in quarantine, h...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia opens new grant opportunities worth $30M for medical research

The Australian government is investing up to $30 million in health and medical research to help bring ground-breaking di...

October 14, 2021 | Thursday | News
Australia brings world’s first children’s mental health and wellbeing strategy

The Australian government has launched the world’s first National Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Str...

October 13, 2021 | Wednesday | News
Digital transformation- An expensive exercise

Increasing industry pressures in the medical devices (MedTech) sector, including complex regulation and operational inef...

October 12, 2021 | Tuesday | Opinion
Comprehensive AI Retinal Expert system offers new hope for APAC

An international group of researchers has successfully applied artificial intelligence (AI) technology to real-world ret...

October 12, 2021 | Tuesday | News
Australia launches new program for way forward after dementia diagnosis

An innovative new program launched on 11 October aims to assist the estimated 60,000 Australians diagnosed with dement...

October 11, 2021 | Monday | News