The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) welcomes Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) announcement to reduce the price of its tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline to USD$1.50 per day. Governments must now urgently scale up the use of the treatment…
Australia will join an international clinical trial to test a new treatment in children with brain cancer, due to launch later this year. Brain cancer kills more children in Australia than any other cancer, with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare…
Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA), the peak organisation for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander allied health workforce, calls on governments to work with and support the Minister for Regional Health, Regional Communications and Local Government, the Hon Mark Coulton MP, in…
This year, with the added stresses of the COVID-19 crisis, Mates 4 Mates is strongly encouraging Australian Defence Force (ADF) members to contact their Family Recovery Centre to learn more about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and what support is available. Mates 4…
The Banksia Project, a mental health not-for-profit dedicated to supporting Australian men towards mental wellness, has expanded its free services to include increased virtual support, in line with demand and alarming unemployment figures during COVID-19. …
This National Blood Donor Week, Leukaemia Foundation General Manager of People Living with Blood Cancer Kathryn Huntley is stressing the need for more people to donate blood to help these Australians survive and live well with their diagnosis.…
The RSPCA says it is relieved by the Department of Agriculture’s decision to deny live exporter RETWA an exemption, which would have seen 56,000 Australian sheep sent into the dangerous heat and humidity of the Middle Eastern summer in contravention of current…
On World MS Day, 30 May, Murdoch University in Western Australia can reveal a new landmark study which is looking to understand how the MS community has defied all odds and remained resilient against the COVID-19 pandemic (as well as the Australian…
Three health charities have been given a much-needed boost at a time when the charity sector, which relies heavily on income from public events and other in-person fundraising initiatives, is being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Starlight Children’s Foundation, Ovarian Cancer Research…
AS COVID-19 restrictions ease around the country, the Leukaemia Foundation is bracing for a steep rise in the number of Australians living with the blood cancer myeloma now and into the future.…
