{"id":394309,"date":"2026-01-28T03:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394309\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:41:13","slug":"new-adrenaline-nasal-spray-a-30-year-first-for-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394309\/","title":{"rendered":"New adrenaline nasal spray a 30-year first for Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first\u00a0nasal spray version of adrenaline is about to arrive in Australia, costing $194 for a two-pack.<\/p>\n<p>Branded Neffy, the single-dose first-aid treatment for anaphylaxis, similar to an EpiPen, will be Australia\u2019s first new form of adrenaline available since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdrenaline is effective, but there are a number of barriers to its use,\u201d said Professor Connie Katelaris, professor of immunology and allergy at Western Sydney University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people are genuinely afraid of needles, while autoinjector devices can also be difficult to carry around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first\u00a0nasal spray version of adrenaline is about to arrive in Australia, costing $194 for a two-pack. Branded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[7502,102,6591,50,15442,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-394309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-allergy","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-news","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}