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Exclusive: After announcing most forms of vaping would be banned, the Albanese government will legislate changes and boost agencies’ powers

Health minister says professor and WHO advisor was ‘an incredibly calm, articulate voice at a time that was very frightening’

Patients will be able to buy two months of medicine from pharmacies for price of one, saving more than $1.6bn over four years

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Opposition won’t support 60-day dispensing policy that allows patients to buy two months of medicine for price of one over concerns community pharmacies will be forced to close

Shadow minister says leak of ‘sensitive’ information after research into the Optus and Medibank hacks was ‘deeply ironic’

VEEV nicotine pods and devices offered at an 80% margin on the condition pharmacies sign supply deal with the tobacco giant

Pharmacies will be paid thousands more to dispense medicines from July 1 as part of a government funding boost.

Audit committee calls for crackdown on politicised funding schemes following controversy over urban congestion and building better regions funds

Newborns will be tested for a wider range of rare health conditions in a promised overhaul that also seeks to iron out differences in screening between states.

Earlier this year, federal health minister Mark Butler announced a new national Lung Cancer Screening Program. The first of its kind for lung cancer, the screening program will open initially to current and former smokers aged 50 to 70 years by July 2025. It aims to save lives by detecting…