The Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, last week launched two related initiatives at the National Medicines Policy Partnership Forum: a position paper on the promotion of ther... Read more
For those who follow the field, the TGA’s plans to restrict availability of cold and cough medicines for children comes as no surprise. At the risk of a gratuitous self-plug, the use o... Read more
As mentioned recently, Pfizer is hitting the consumer and medical media in the interests of its combination heart pill, Caduet. Regular readers may remember that earlier this year Michele Ko... Read more
The Ginkgo biloba or Maidenhair tree is a beautiful creature, and I’ve several growing myself. But the gardener’s delight may be a patient’s peril – recent tests sugg... Read more
The announcement last Friday that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved CSL’s vaccine against swine flu and that a national vaccination campaign will be rolled out in... Read more
Following on from previous posts, here is another letter to Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, from Ken Harvey today (and copied to Graeme Samuel at the Australian Competition... Read more
The Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, issued this release yesterday, clearly intending to allay concerns raised by the Sydney Morning Herald’s stories sounding the alarm... Read more
Ever since news broke about a US recall of weight loss products called Hydroxycut, the one-man industry watchdog Dr Ken Harvey has been on a campaign to get some action in Australia. The Foo... Read more
Ken Harvey’s recent Crikey piece about the TGA’s draft guidelines for evidence on weight loss products has apparently ruffled a few industry feathers. Pharma Focus recently reported the ASMI... Read more
