Megan Haggan

Nicotine pouches are to be banned from unapproved therapeutic pathways in a bid to reduce the incidence of addiction in the community Federal health minister Mark Butler has announced that ...

A candidate for presidency of the AMA says that the Grattan Institute’s new report reflects her campaign platform Dr Anchita Karmakar is a lawyer as well as a rural generalist ...

Suggestions that the location rules be scrapped should be rejected to protect the health of rural Australians, say pharmacists The Remote and Isolated Pharmacist Association Australia (RIPAA) has called on federal and state health policymakers to reject several of the recommendations made in the Grattan Institute’s recent report on the pharmacy sector. Grattan’s report, “Future

Why shouldn’t the general public be able to pick up “your scripts and sausages under the same roof,” asks Grattan in a follow-up to its controversial report Grattan Institute health ...

The controversial Grattan Report has recommended changes to professional pharmacy services, including medicines reviews – and attacked the PSA’s role in the services agreement The report recommended replacing “arbitrary” caps on MedsChecks with tighter eligibility and information-sharing requirements, as well as resetting pricing for dose administration aids to reflect increasing automation, and then remove caps.

Australian patients are missing out on three-quarters of new drugs, according to Medicines Australia The organisation has released a new report, “Bitter Pill: How Australian patients are missing out on ...

Commenting on the Grattan report, one stakeholder says professional pharmacist services delivered beyond dispensing should progressively move within Australia's mainstream Medicare funding architecture The Grattan Institute’s latest report, released earlier this month (13 July 2026) made six recommendations about the future of the pharmacy sector, mainly about regulation of community pharmacy – but also including

The TGA has issued an alert for products in the GLP-1 RA class of medicines, warning they could cause a severe eye disorder in users Product warnings across the class ...

New data shows the importance of self-care as Australia faces rising rates of chronic disease, an ageing population and increasing healthcare costs, says CHP Consumer Healthcare Products Australia says that new economic modelling from Mandala and the Australian Self-Care Alliance has found that a proposed Preventive Care+ program could deliver significant health, workforce and economic

New research has shown that while more GPs are offering early medication abortion, many women still cannot access the service where they live. The study, published in BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health and led by Flinders University, highlights inequities in access, particularly in light of overseas comparisons where early medication abortion accounts for up to