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Hundreds of medicines are in short supply including Hormone Replacement Therapies.

If Australia made more of its own medicines, we’d all feel better

Australia imports about 90 per cent of its medicine, and this makes us incredibly vulnerable to any supply disruption. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

  • Jennifer Martin

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Any attempts to create “mirror life” should be stopped, according to the scientists who were trying to create it.

Scientists slam brakes on research that could lead to the perfect bioweapon

Potentially catastrophic risks to life as we know it have prompted dozens of eminent scientists to hit the brakes on their research.

  • Angus Dalton
The newly opened Moderna Technology Centre at Monash University in Clayton, Melbourne.

‘We don’t have a Team Australia approach’: Vaccine facility rejects plea for help

A request by NSW to access a taxpayer-funded Moderna mRNA facility was knocked back, raising more questions about how much value Australia is getting from the facility.

  • Liam Mannix and Paul Sakkal
More than 125 products containing phenylephrine are approved for Australian shelves.

Pharmaceutical giant sued over ‘ineffective’ cold and flu drugs

Sick customers who bought some cold and flu medications have been falsely assured their nasal congestion would be relieved, an Australian class action alleges.

  • Neve Brissenden
Statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk tap into a dispute over whether lifestyle changes or pharmaceuticals are better for treating obesity.

Can Ozempic make America slim again? RFK Jr and Musk are at odds

Two people whispering in Trump’s ear have opposing views on how to fix one of his biggest challenges: the country’s obesity problem.

  • Gina Kolata
Carmel Tebbutt, Michael Doyle and Ryan Park at the drug summit. 

Anger, frustration and revolt: Inside the final day of NSW’s drug summit

As the drug summit unfolded, it became dominated by the one topic the government wanted off the table: decriminalisation.

  • Michael McGowan and Angus Thomson
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Government auditors have savaged the government’s top research agency’s lax approach to scientific misconduct and fraud in an audit that could lead to a major shakeup of the way bad science is policed.

Dodgy science in crosshairs as fraud audit censures Australia’s top research agency

The National Health and Medical Research Council has been criticised over its lax approach to scientific misconduct in an audit that lays the groundwork for changes in the way bad science is policed.

  • Liam Mannix
Johanna Barry with daughter Makenzie, who suffered night terrors and hallucinations which her parents attributed to the asthma drug she was taking at the time.

This asthma drug is taken by millions. Now scientists have found it in the brain

The findings, presented at a conference in Texas last week, have raised pressure on Australian authorities to better warn patients about the risks of montelukast.

  • Angus Thomson
“There’s been so many times where I’ve wondered, ‘Should I just say it?’,” says Henderson.

‘The stigma that will come with sharing this – I don’t care’: Jackie O opens up

She’s the better half of the Kyle and Jackie O radio show. She’s also a recovering addict: a fact she kept close to her chest until this week.

  • Konrad Marshall
A ban on over-the-counter codeine products has been attributed to fewer deaths of despair in Australia.

Codeine bans helped avoid a COVID spike in ‘deaths of despair’

Deaths of despair have surged in parts of the world as people use drugs or alcohol. But a new study shows Australia has not followed that trend.

  • Shane Wright

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