30
May
What is Paxlovid?
Paxlovid is Pfizer's antiviral treatment for COVID-19. It’s one of the new oral antivirals formulated to limit the impact of COVID-19 available on the Pharmaceutical Benefit...
20
May
Cases of the flu are surging through in Victorian schools, with children making up almost half the total reported number of flu cases so far this month*.
The Health...
04
May
As we enter the third year of the pandemic, long COVID has become an increasingly important concern.
Long COVID is characterised by COVID-19 symptoms that last longer than three...
14
Apr
Why haven’t waves of COVID-19 and influenza infections spread over countries simultaneously? A piece by The New York Times recently explored potential answers to this intriguing question. They reported that the “viral...
07
Apr
Health authorities have detected 637 cases of a new COVID variant in England.
Dubbed the XE, relatively little is known about it. The variant is a combination of the...
01
Apr
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced the government's budget to the nation. Here are the implications for the health sector, particularly the pharmacy sector and its patients.
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