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Regulator may put bite on weight-loss drugs sold online

AAP - 29-03-2023

Websites advertising prescriptions for weight loss drugs via an online quiz could find themselves in hot water from Australia's medicine regulator. Australian-based

 
Kids ingesting nicotine reason for vaping crackdown

AAP - 23-03-2023

Dozens of children under the age of four ingesting nicotine has been cited by Health Minister Mark Butler as one of the reasons for a crackdown on vaping laws.

 
APA calls for physiotherapists to be included in Urgent Care Clinics

Nicole Madigan - 07-03-2023

The Australian Physiotherapy Association has called on the government to include physiotherapists in newly announced Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, which would see families

 
Ministers agree to public hospital funding review

AAP - 26-02-2023

Taking the pressure off public hospitals will be the subject of an independent review agreed by health ministers. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler met with

 
Mixed reactions to proposed pharmacy prescription trial

AAP - 20-02-2023

Health Minister Mark Butler has welcomed a trial allowing pharmacists to prescribe the contraceptive pill as an innovative solution to address health care constraints.

 
Aussies save millions from cheaper medicines policy

AAP - 19-02-2023

More than 1.6 million discounted prescriptions were filled in January after the maximum co-payment for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was discounted. The

 
National register will stop 'prolific' sperm donors

AAP - 18-02-2023

A national sperm donation register would stop "prolific" sperm donors from creating more families than legally allowed, a peak fertility body says.

 

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