Michael Smith

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Jun 11, 2025 – 5.00amGift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginEarly in life, Telstra Health chief executive Elizabeth Koff was told she was too nice to become a business leader. “I never thought I’d be doing something like this in a million years.

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Jun 9, 2025 – 12.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A legal dispute between Mayne Pharma and private equity suitor Cosette, which has terminated its $672 million takeover offer for the Adelaide-based target, may drag on in the courts for years unless the bidding parties settle their dispute ahead of a shareholder vote on the deal in two weeks.

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Jun 4, 2025 – 5.29pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? US pharmaceutical giant Cosette has terminated its $672 million takeover bid for Adelaide-based drug company Mayne Pharma, but the target company says it will challenge the move in the courts.

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Jun 4, 2025 – 4.34pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Australia’s medicines regulator has approved the use of a GLP-1 weight-loss drug to treat people with sleep apnoea for the first time, broadening the applications for the popular drugs beyond diabetes and heart disease.

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Jun 4, 2025 – 12.39pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Private health insurers say the out-of-pocket cost of seeing a specialist doctor has become so expensive that many Australians are deferring critical medical care, and that this is a key reason private hospitals are struggling to fill beds.