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Media Releases


  • 26 May 2017 2:32 PM | Anonymous

    Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA) accentuates the protective qualities of omega-3 fish oils, and emphasises the large body of evidence from clinical trials that show omega-3 fish oils contribute to positive health benefits.

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  • 28 Apr 2017 9:58 AM | Anonymous

    Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA) has today welcomed the communiqué by the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation that Ministers supported the draft standard that will allow low-THC hemp seeds to be sold as a food.

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  • 04 Apr 2017 9:36 AM | Anonymous

    Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA) applauds well-known industry player, Blackmores, and Marcus Blackmore, for supporting independent complementary medicines research via a funding gift totalling $10 million to Western Sydney University’s National Institute of Complementary Medicine.

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  • 03 Apr 2017 1:30 PM | Anonymous

    Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA) has welcomed the Fruit, Vegetables and Diet Score Report published today by the CSIRO as it highlights the need for a focus on improving the dietary patterns of Australian adults, finding that only 51 per cent are eating the recommended intake of fruit and that 66 per cent are not eating enough vegetables.


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  • 06 Feb 2017 8:53 AM | Anonymous

    Responding to a narrative review recently published in the Medical Journal of Australia, Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA) advised that Australian consumers can be confident in herbal products purchased in Australia.


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  • 06 Feb 2017 8:50 AM | Anonymous

    Complementary medicines Australia (CMA) is disappointed that melatonin won’t be made available to Australian consumers without a prescription as it is in other areas around the globe including the US and Canada. This follows a decision by the Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling that melatonin for human use will for now remain in Schedule 4 of the Poisons Standard.


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  • 02 Feb 2017 9:43 AM | Anonymous

    Complementary medicines Australia (CMA) has been heartened by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s comment made at the National Press Club yesterday that the Australia Government will implement “in 2017, a new focus on preventive health.”

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  • 19 Jan 2017 12:52 PM | Anonymous

    In its pre-Budget submission, Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA) has welcomed the Government’s continued focus on improving Australia’s competitiveness via removal of burdensome regulatory red tape. This includes the Medicines and Medical Devices Regulation (MMDR) reforms that aim to ease regulatory requirements where they do little to improve consumer protection but are a barrier to business.


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  • 18 Jan 2017 1:06 PM | Anonymous

    Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA) has welcomed the appointment of Greg Hunt as the new Federal Health Minister.

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  • 13 Dec 2016 10:15 AM | Anonymous
    With about 10 per cent of young Australians found to be iron deficient, Mr Carl Gibson, chief executive of Complementary Medicines Australia (CMA), has welcomed an article published in Australian Prescriber encouraging iron supplementation as a part of correcting iron deficiency.


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