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RADAR provides health professionals with timely, independent evidence-based information on new drugs and medical tests and changes to listings on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and Medicare Benefits Schedule.

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Requesting the new Cervical Screening Test: what providers need to know

  • 1 Dec 2017
  • 8 min read

From 1 December 2017, pathology MBS items for cervical screening will change.

Grazoprevir with elbasvir (Zepatier): fixed-dose combination for chronic hepatitis C genotypes 1 and 4

  • 21 Apr 2017
  • 13 min read

The first interferon-free, oral antiviral treatment option for chronic genotype 4 HCV infection

Outmanoeuvring hepatitis C

  • 2 Apr 2016
  • 3 min read

From 1 March 2016 several new direct-acting antiviral regimens became available on the PBS in a major advance in chronic HCV therapy

Sofosbuvir treatment combinations for chronic hepatitis C

  • 2 Apr 2016
  • 11 min read

Now PBS listed as a first-line interferon-free treatment option for chronic HCV genotype 1.

Latest In Brief View all

Varenicline (Champix) now Authority required (streamlined) 

  • 7 Nov 2017
  • 6 min read

Ustekinumab (Stelara) PBS listed for severe Crohn’s disease

  • 26 Oct 2017
  • 4 min read

Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir for hepatitis C virus infection

  • 25 Oct 2017
  • 4 min read

Reduced pack sizes and delisting of 2 mg doses of alprazolam (Alprax, GenRx Alprazolam, Kalma) for panic disorder

  • 23 Feb 2017
  • 4 min read

Omalizumab (Xolair) PBS listed for use in children with asthma

  • 12 Jan 2017
  • 3 min read

Wrap Up

April 2016 new listings wrap-up

  • 1 Apr 2016
  • 4 min read