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New Zealand's Pharmac has announced that from 1 November, it will expand access to Merck's ERBITUX (cetuximab) for bowel cancer, bendamustine for blood cancer, and pemetrexed.

A recent heart screening program delivered by Shane Warne Legacy in partnership with Novartis, SiSu Health, and Wesfarmers has highlighted the critical role of accessible heart screening programs in improving health outcomes for those living in rural and regional areas of Australia.

“It’s important to acknowledge the size of the issue and enormity of the challenge. Approximately 880,000 Australians are now living with a severe and complex mental illness,” said Dirk Otto, the general manager of Boehringer Ingelheim Australia

Eli Lilly general manager Tori Brown said, “The report highlights a once in a generation opportunity to act on Alzheimer’s disease. It is good for patients, good for families and carers, good for health and aged care systems, and good for the economy."

The Australian researchers and industry leaders were recognised for discovering a GSK-commercialised drug that started its development at Melbourne-based company Cytopia.

Healthy Bones Australia is teaming up with an Olympian, doctors, politicians, and patients today to launch findings from a national burden of disease report.

Telix has announced that the TGA has approved the use of Illuccix to select patients for PSMA-targeted radionuclide therapy.

Medibank has announced it will double the number of employees participating in its four-day workweek trial.

Anyone wanting to understand how the proposed streamlined process for cost-minimised therapies could walk need only look to New Zealand.

The inaugural 'Wesfarmers Health: Australia's Health Index' reveals that the country's health debt remains significant following the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the leadup to World Arthritis Day, 11 health and allied peak bodies have aligned in a broad-based push to reduce critical delays in diagnosing the painful childhood illness Juvenile Arthritis, signing a consensus statement to be released at a National Stakeholder Forum in Parliament House today.

Is it a case of 'The Emperor's New Clothes'? Does the 19th-century folktale about the foolishness of failing to speak up for the truth and what is right provide a valuable lesson?