AUSTRALIA’S medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), is set to hand down its “interim decision” on whether it will make cannabidiol (CBD) more easily and affordably available for Australians. CBD is a non-psychoactive component of medicinal cannabis that can […]

Endometriosis is a debilitating and painful inflammatory disease that affects 11 per cent of Australian women of reproductive age. Tissue similar to the tissue that forms the lining of the uterus (endometrium) grows outside of the uterus, often implanting on […]

National Pain Week 2020 launched on Monday 27 July, bringing attention to the needs of the estimated one in three Australians that live with chronic pain. Chronic pain is a major community health issue that is now widely acknowledged requires […]

A key undertaking provided by the Department of Health for the new 2019-20 review updates of 16 natural therapies is to pre-publish the research protocols to be used. This is an important transparency measure routinely observed in ethical scientific processes to […]

The global prevalence of diabetes is high and rapidly increasing. Current figures show that 280 Australians develop diabetes each day. That’s one person every five minutes. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are almost four times more likely than non-Indigenous […]