GP in top 10 list for drug company payments: analysis
Ten health professionals received a total of around $500,000 in pharmaceutical company payments between November 2023 to April 2024, analysis of Medicines Australia data shows.…
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Doctors fear ‘looming crisis’ in palliative care as opioid options dry up
Doctors have warned the Federal Government that it needs to act to stop a looming crisis in palliative care and pain management due to clinicians’…
Are pharma-funded awareness campaigns a blind spot in prescription advertising rules?
For almost a decade, US men were faced with TV, online ads and billboards about the risks of low testosterone or ‘low T’, as it was…
The disease guidelines industry: How independent is it, really?
Australian Doctor recently reported on an expert-written guideline urging Australian GPs to inform patients with mild dementia that a multivitamin supplement had been shown to…
Why doctors may pay scant attention to medicine safety warnings
The vague terms of post-market drug safety warnings from the TGA and other watchdogs mean they only have small effects on doctors’ prescribing habits, researchers…
Pharma rep laments being ignored and locked out by doctors
During the COVID-19 lockdowns one global medical industry went into a partial deep freeze — the business of the face-to-face drug rep visit. In Australia,…
GPs fear patients will give up on meds as shortages hit 300 drugs
RACGP president Dr Karen Price says she has already heard anecdotal reports of compliance issues as people struggle to get their scripts filled.
Pre-surgery immunotherapy approach shows promise in NSCLC
Interim results from the AEGEAN trial using combined immunotherapy and chemotherapy are promising, says AstraZeneca.
Moderna advances two vax candidates against Omicron variants
The company is one of a number of vaccine makers developing new shots to tackle BA.4 and BA.5.
Should pharma companies go further in the boycott of Russia?
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and overwhelming destruction of property and loss of innocent lives, a number of western companies – from McDonalds…
