Registrations are open for this year’s Laboratory Managers Conference to be held in Melbourne, November 9 – 11.
22/10/2009
The Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists is hosting The Business of Pathology (TBOP) meeting during 17-18 November, 2009 at the Melbourne Museum.
28/10/2009
THE FIRST case of H1N1 Influenza (Human Swine Flu) has been identified in Western Australia. A 30-year-old Perth man has become the first WA resident to test positive for the influenza.
25/05/2009
THE VICTORIAN Infection Control Professionals Association has announced its Biennial State Conference to be held at the Grand Hyatt, Melbourne on 7 to 9 October 2009.
31/08/2009
RESEARCHERS at the University of Melbourne, Australia have identified a human vaccine against Bird Flu. The scientists have found that boosting T cell immunity could better protect humans from a bird flu pandemic.
16/03/2009
PUBLIC health officials will meet today to decide who will get swine flu vaccine first when it becomes available.
06/08/2009
STARPHARMA has announced it has received notification of the grant in the US of a key patent specifically relating to the use of SPL7013 to protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
23/09/2009
A Melbourne scientist has developed a new diagnostic technique that could be used to quickly confirm the presence of meningococcal bacteria.
16/12/2009
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has published a copy of a presentation focusing on the Australian manufacturing quality program (Good Manufacturing Practice, GMP) requirements for bacterial contamination testing in cell and tissue products.
29/04/2010
A WORLD-LEADING obesity expert has today publicly commended the recommendations proposed by the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry into Obesity for their recognition of obesity as a serious, chronic disease requiring General Practitioners to diagnose and treat it like other chronic diseases, such as diabetes and arthritis.
03/06/2009
AS OF the 1 September 2009, patients treating their HIV with antiretroviral medication life is set to improve with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) listing of a therapy which helps correct HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy (facial fat loss).
03/09/2009
MORE than 2 million Australians living with osteoporosis1 are set to benefit from the first once-a-month osteoporosis therapy to be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) today (July 1, 2009).
01/07/2009
Australian researchers are members of an international consortium entering a new era of personalised medicine for cancer patients.
03/05/2010