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Evidence, access and one-size-fits failures in chronic pain

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Megan Weieron: May 29, 2019In: chronic diseases, evidence-based issues, pain

Introduction by Croakey: Evidence-based medicine is one of the central tenets of modern healthcare, but when it comes to managing chronic pain, homogenising one-size-fits approaches may be t... Read more

Medical device regulation and cryo-ing wolf

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Darci Buchelion: February 06, 2019In: complementary medicines, evidence-based issues, health regulation, Public health and population health, TGA

In this second piece for our Monash University Summer Vacation Scholarship series, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine prize winner Darci Bucheli looks at medical device regula... Read more

King Kong Stack and the suspect world of supplements

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Lucy Romanoffon: February 05, 2019In: complementary medicines, evidence-based issues, health regulation, Public health and population health, TGA, weight loss products

The Therapeutic Goods Administration exists to protect the public, but in an age of paleo, Paltrow and celebrity cures, what new challenges does it face? In this Monash University Summer Vac... Read more

Ethics, regulation and the medical devices boom

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Amy Coopeson: December 04, 2017In: adverse events, digital technology, health and medical research, health ethics, health regulation, Healthcare and health reform, public health

In an era of medical apps, remote-controlled biomedical devices and 3D printing, regulatory and quality-control challenges will enter unprecedented territory, the latest Consumers Health For... Read more

Not so fast: the perils of expedited drug approval

Editor: Amy CoopesAuthor: Amy Coopeson: February 23, 2016In: adverse events, evidence-based issues, Healthcare and health reform, journal articles, pharmaceutical industry, TGA

Drugs deemed safe and suitable for human use by other jurisdictions could be fast-tracked for approval in Australia under proposed government reforms aimed at reducing red tape and regulatio... Read more

A call for clarity in policy around drugs known as “biosimilars”

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: June 22, 2015In: health regulation, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, pharmaceutical industry, TGA

The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and the Therapeutic Goods Administration have been urged to clarify their policies around “biosimilars” – drugs which act in the same way as pa... Read more

The TGA – a watchdog with dentures?

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: March 25, 2014In: health regulation, pharmaceutical industry, quality and safety of health care, TGA

Note: A response from the TGA was added on 28 March – see bottom of post. Questions are again being raised about the effectiveness of the Therapeutic Goods Administration as a regulato... Read more

Consumer group raises concerns about pain medicines – and the company responds

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: August 22, 2012In: adverse events, consumer health matters, pharmaceutical industry, TGA

Below is an article that ran earlier this week in the Crikey bulletin raising concerns about the ongoing availability of two pain management medicines, and the processes that have enabled th... Read more

Is the TGA out to lunch? Ken Harvey on the weight loss pill that lets you “have the cake without the calories”

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: February 23, 2012In: complementary medicines, health & medical marketing, health regulation, TGA

The Therapeutic Goods Administration’s response to concerns about the marketing of a weight-loss pill, which lets you “have the cake without the calories”, suggests that the many revie... Read more

A rather large wrap of recent Croakey articles: public health, health reform, media coverage of health and more

Editor: Melissa Sweeton: January 11, 2012In: abortion, alcohol, cancer, child health, climate change, complementary medicines, conflicts of interest, consumer health matters, death and dying, evidence-based issues, food and nutrition, global health, health and medical research, health financing and costs, health inequalities, health reform, health workforce, hospitals, Indigenous health, infectious diseases, Media Doctor Australia, Medicare Locals, mental health, MyHospitals website, obesity, oral health, pain, palliative care, pharmacy, physical activity, Pregnancy and childbirth, prevention, primary health care, public health, quality and safety of health care, rural and remote health, Social determinants of health, social media and healthcare, TGA, The Conversation, tobacco control, vaccination, WHO

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