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CoArticles & Downloads
Here is a growing selection of documents and links related to Natural Health Care in Australia. We are including materials related to
- NHCA press releases and public statements
- material relating to the Expert Committee Report
- documents associated with Trans Tasman Harmonisation
- other (miscellaneous) materials
Media Releases | Expert Committee | trans-Tasman | other
NHCA Media Releases
NHCA Letter to the Industry
This is the official letter of introduction sent out on September 23, 2003
Natural Health Care is Safe - Conference Gets it Wrong
NHCA | Press Release November 11, 2003
New Medicare Solution Makes Doctors Fat and People Sick
The $2.4 billion cost of pushing through the Government Medicare reforms is "money down the drain", and would be better spent on health promotion and prevention, according to the Natural Health Care Alliance.
Buy Pharmaceutical Shares Now… It's the Only Way to Pay for Your Drugs in the Future
Dr Mark Donohoe, President of the NHCA, tells the Federal Government's Health & Ageing Committee that "the current cost of medicine in Australia exceeds $65 billion, half of which is funded by taxpayers".
New study shows echinacea keeps kids out of doctors surgeries
A trial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has again demonstrated the value of echinacea in preventing colds and 'flu in children, according to the NHCA. The benefits could translate into millions of dollars of savings to the national health budget each year in Australia.
Expert Committee Report
Feb 2004
NHCA Response Document to Expert Committee Recommendations
7th November 2003
NHAA ( National Herbal Association of Australia) Media Release Expert Report
31st October 2003
Complementary Medicines in the Australian Health System
Expert Committee on Complementary Medicines in the Health System - Therapeutic Goods Administration Report
31st October 2003
Government Moves To Restore Confidence In Complementary Medicines Industry
The Hon Trish Worth
Trans-Tasman Therapeutic Products Advertising Scheme
9th September & received 10th December 2003
The agreement between the government of Australia and the government of New Zealand for the establishment of a joint scheme for the regulation of therapeutic products
Fact sheet - establishment of a joint scheme to regulate therapeutic products
received December 10th, 2003
Joint media statement - Australia and New Zealand sign treaty to regulate medicines & therapeutic products
December 10th, 2003
Media release of Trish Worth - The Australian and New Zealand governments agree to establish a trans-Tasman therapeutic products agency
December 10th, 2003
Proposal for a trans-Tasman model for advertising of therapeutic goods in New Zealand and Australia Governance arrangements
November 2003
Ratified minutes of the Interim Advertising Council - Meeting 2
on August 4, 2003, 8.30 am - 4 pm at the Centra Hotel, Auckland.
Interim Advertising Council - Meeting 4
Agenda Item: Evaluation framework for the Trans Tasman regulation of advertising of therapeutic products.
Proposal for a trans-Tasman model for advertising of therapeutic goods in New Zealand and Australia: Arrangements for ensuring compliance - sanctions and penalties
Other Materials
Senator Lyn Allison
Latest questions to the Federal Government on the TGA
24th - 26th February 2004 Annual Health Congress 2004
Financial Review Conference: schedule of the 2004 sessions
Senator Lyn Allison
Australian Democrats Health Spokesperson: questions to the Federal Government on the TGA's Pan Pharmaceuticals recall and on its failure to act on the very large number of adverse reactions and deaths each year attributed to pharmaceuticals.
7th December 2003
Parliamentary speech on Complementary Medicine
by Guy Barnett, Senator for Tasmania and co-host of the “Wellness Dinner” at Parliament House put on by the CHC.
26th August 2005
Complementary Health Update from Senator Lyn Allison, Australian Democrats Health Spokesperson. Dated November, 2003.
November 11, 2003 Letter to the Editor
The Australian by Dr Mark Donohoe regarding the article "No alternatives to truth in labelling" which suggested chemical analysis as the only viable criteria for determining the efficacy of a natural substance.
7th November 2003 Pandemonium: Government health policy and Complementary medicines
a report by Marcus C.Blackmore AM
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