July
Nicotine use soaring as vapes go underground
Experts warn the federal government’s new vaping policies will tip money into the pockets of criminal enterprises and potentially even increase smoking rates.
- Gus McCubbing
June
Immutep raises $100m and signs with Merck on ‘blockbuster’ drug
Shares in the oncology therapy hopeful have risen some 45 per cent in the last 12 months as the company nears the commercialisation of its drug, Efti.
- Kylar Loussikian
January
Crackdown seizes $4.5m of disposable vapes
Border Force authorities seized 150,000 disposable vapes worth about $4.5 million after the federal government cracked down on the ‘public health menace’.
- Gus McCubbing
Fears of black market after vape imports banned
The federal government has banned the importation of single-use disposable vapes amid warnings of youth addiction.
- Gus McCubbing
June 2020
Australia prevails in decade-long duel with Big Tobacco
The pioneering "plain packaging" rules for cigarettes have now seen off every legal challenge the tobacco industry has thrown at them.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Australia wins tobacco case at World Trade Organisation
The pioneering "plain packaging" rules for cigarettes have now seen off every legal challenge the tobacco industry has thrown at them.
- Hans van Leeuwen
December 2019
Finally, some hope for Australians with lung cancer
If a national screening program for lung cancer is introduced, it will save lives and help to strip away the stigma of the biggest cancer killer in Australia.
- Jill Margo
November 2019
Australia overestimating risks of cancer
The lifetime risk of diagnosis and death from five major cancers in Australia isn't as great as public health campaigns suggest, particularly for men.
- Jill Margo