Australia provisionally approves oral COVID-19 pills by Merck & Pfizer

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 21 Jan, 2022

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has issued provisional approval of the first oral treatments for...Read more

Australia grants provisional registration for Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 20 Jan, 2022

Novavax, Inc. has announced that Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted approval for p...Read more

Australia to launch first collaborative cardiovascular research accelerator

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 19 Jan, 2022

Federal Minister for Health, Greg Hunt has announced funding for two new Research Centres through the MTPConnect Targete...Read more

Australia pitches $24 M for telehealth to tackle growing cases of omicron

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 18 Jan, 2022

As Omicron case numbers grow, the Australian Government will make temporary changes to Telehealth to give general p...Read more

Australia gives recognition to Sputnik V vaccine for international travel

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 17 Jan, 2022

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia has determined that an additional COVID-19 vaccine, the two dose...Read more

Australia uncovers resistance gene in deadly E. coli

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Jan, 2022

Scientists have pinpointed a gene that helps deadly E. coli bacteria evade antibiotics, potentially leading to better tr...Read more

Australia leads world-first clinical trial on benefits of losing weight prior to pregnancy

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 13 Jan, 2022

The University of Sydney, Australia is leading the world's largest clinical trial exploring how losing weight prior to p...Read more

Australia invests $44 M to expand health and medical research capability

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 12 Jan, 2022

The Australian government is investing in the future competitiveness of Australian health and medical research with more...Read more

Australia discovers new treatments for infectious diseases

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 11 Jan, 2022

  Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) in Australia have disc...Read more

Rare cancers & rare diseases research receives $63.4M boost in Australia

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 10 Jan, 2022

Research into some of the world’s rarest forms of cancer and disease have received a boost, with the Australian go...Read more

Mental health clinical trials receive funding worth $14.8 M in Australia

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 07 Jan, 2022

Seven clinical trials testing the use of potential breakthrough combination therapies to treat debilitating mental illne...Read more

Australia injects $5.5 M for clinical trials to treat low-survival breast cancers

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Jan, 2022

Two clinical trials which could save lives through new therapies to treat breast cancers that have low rates of survival...Read more

Australia grants provisional determination to AstraZeneca's Evusheld for adolescents

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Jan, 2022

On 4 January 2022, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia granted a further provisional determination t...Read more

T-cell responses by vaccines and boosters effective against Omicron: Australian study

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Jan, 2022

Research from the University of Melbourne in Australia and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKU...Read more

Australia identifies drivers of kidney disease

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Dec, 2021

For the first time, researchers from Australian National University have identified a gene which shows the kidney has it...Read more

Australia forms world-first consortium to fight global blindness

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Dec, 2021

Australian leaders in corneal bioengineering have collaborated to form BIENCO, a consortium to develop bioengineered eye...Read more

Nasal spray to fight COVID-19 heads to clinical trial in Australia

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 24 Dec, 2021

An at-home nasal spray treatment for COVID-19 will be put to the test by Melbourne biomedical researchers, as the Univer...Read more

Australia links walking style with ‘future osteoarthritis’

Australia |  News | 0 Comment | 23 Dec, 2021

The way people move and unconsciously place pressure on certain joints when walking could play a role in future onset an...Read more