Pharmacist-only oral contraceptives and trimethoprim could be a step closer thank to a new appendix that has been added to the scheduling handbook.

Appendix M is for pharmacist-only medicines that

The TGA has effectively created a new drug scheduling category for controlled OTC medicines as part of a plan to make more medicines available without a prescription.

Pharmacy lobby groups have

The TGA has been forced to tweak it controversial list of “official” clinical indications for alternative therapies after discovering some of the indications were bogus.

Last year the medicines

A new combination weight loss pill has been approved by the TGA for use nearly 15 years after it was developed by an Australian physiologist.

The medication (Contrave, by iNova) contains a

"We ask that the TGA does not criminalise the sex lives of gay men and queer Australians that seek to have comfortable, consensual sex in the privacy of their own homes."

You may be thinking why

Another manufacturer of valsartan has been forced into a recall after it was discovered the tablets had been contaminated with a probable carcinogen.

The TGA announced on Wednesday that Apotex’s

The TGA has launched legal action against a peptide clinic for allegedly selling dangerous, prescription-only medicines directly to the public.

Following an investigation by the medicines regulator,

The first Australian GP authorised to bypass government bureaucrats when prescribing medical cannabis says she may drop the endorsement, claiming the TGA’s new fast-track approval system has made it

The TGA has given the green light to Australia’s first self-testing kit for HIV, which is expected to increase testing by reducing stigma.

Federal Minister for Health Greg Hunt has today announced

The shortage of extended-release metformin is worsening, with four more products being added to the TGA website.

The products are listed as unavailable until mid to late of February due to an