Video / Audio Resource
- What is the active ingredient (English)
- Keep an up to date medicine list during COVID-19 – NPS
- Ask questions - NPS
- What makes medicine work - NPS
- Generic brands
- Talking about medicines in culturally and linguistically diverse communities
Online Article
- Medicine and brand names (English)
- Medicine Line
- Generic medicines vs. brand-name medicines (English)
Factsheet, Brochure and Tool
Available in:
- English,
- Arabic,
- Chinese (Simplified),
- Chinese (Traditional),
- Croatian,
- Greek,
- Italian,
- Korean,
- Macedonian,
- Spanish
- Vietnamese.
- Asthma and COVID-19
- Arthritis and COVID-19
- Cardiovascular disease and COVID 19
- Diabetes and COVID-19
- Stroke and COVID-19
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Telephone Service
Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National 131 450)
TIS provides access to phone and on-site interpreting services in over 150 languages.
Medicines Line (1300 633 424)
Medicine Line is a telephone service providing consumers with information on prescription, over-the-counter and complementary (herbal, ‘natural’, vitamin and mineral) medicines.
healthdirect Helpline (1800 022 222)
If your health concern is not urgent call the healthdirect helpline at any time on for free advice and reassurance.
The healthdirect helpline is a 24-hour telephone health advice line that operates seven days a week. It is staffed by registered nurses who provide expert health advice. You can call for advice if you or a member of your family are feeling ill and are unsure what to do, or for health information on a particular condition.