Australian consumer advocates have welcomed the federal government's announcement that drugs costing the country less than A$10 million per year will continue not to have to be approved by the Cabinet ...

Ken Harvey attended Medicines Australia (MA) Code revision workshop as a representative of CHOICE but declined remuneration from MA for his time. He has been involved in prior MA Code revisions and ...

Australia’s drug approval system is under fire, with critics in the United States claiming it is too slow to approve life-saving medicines. Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration balances speed ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Victoria. Followed categories will be added to My News. On average it takes 466 days from when a new medicine is declared safe and effective by the Therapeutic ...

An approach to health care that focuses on using all available methods to prevent disease and poor health is to be welcomed, Medicines Australia said today. The Chief Executive Officer of Medicines ...

About 400 medicines are in short supply in Australia. Of these, about 30 are categorised as critical. These are ones with a life-threatening or serious impact on patients, and with no readily ...

SYDNEYSYDNEY — Australia’s drug regulator has fined a pharmaceutical company owned by the billionaire Sackler family over what it dubbed misleading advertising for one of its opioid painkillers, as ...

On average it takes 466 days from when a new medicine is declared safe and effective by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to when it is made available – and affordable – on the ...