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