NICE draft guidance recommends apixaban (Eliquis) for treating and preventing potentially fatal blood clots

In draft guidance published today healthcare guidance body NICE has recommended the anti-blood clotting drug apixaban (Eliquis, Bristol-Myers Squibb and ...

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NICE draft guidance recommends eculizumab (Soliris) for treating very rare life-threatening blood disorder

NICE has today issued final draft guidance recommending eculizumab (Soliris, Alexion) for funding for treating atypical Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (aHUS). ...

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Pfizer's crizotinib is not good value for NHS money, says NICE

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NICE rejects Takeda Crohn’s disease drug

Takeda has seen its treatment for people with Crohn’s disease Entyvio rejected by NICE in an initial appraisal. ...

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NICE consults on draft guidance on the drug simeprevir sodium (Olysio) for treating hepatitis C

In draft guidance published today healthcare guidance body NICE has recommended simeprevir sodium (Olysio, Janssen) as a treatment option for ...

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NHS England stumps up £190m for hepatitis C therapy

NHS England has agreed to invest a whopping £190 million this year in new treatments for hepatitis C, so that ...

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NICE Citizens Council to discuss what influences how health and social care resources are shared-out

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Final NICE nod for Sovaldi, but patients left waiting

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published final guidance recommending the use of Gilead’s Sovaldi (sofosbuvir), as ...

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Janssen offers NHS to pay for Olysio failures

Patients with hepatitis C will now be able to access Janssen’s Olysio (simeprevir sodium) on the National Health Service in ...

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NICE consults on treatment for finger contracture caused by Dupuytren’s disease

NICE is consulting on its provisional recommendations on a treatment for Dupuytren’s contracture, where fingers gradually bend in towards the ...

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Cancer Drugs Fund makes no sense, says head of drugs rationing body NICE

The government’s Cancer Drugs Fund ‘makes no sense’ the head of the NHS drugs rationing body has said. ...

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NICE proposes to recommend lenalidomide for myelodysplastic syndromes

NICE has issued final draft guidance recommending lenalidomide (also known as Revlimid and marketed by Celgene) as an option, for ...

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Early Access to Medicines Scheme (EAMS)

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NICE U-turn as Entyvio is backed for Crohn's

Patients with Crohn’s disease are now likely to get National Health Service access to Takeda’s biologic Entyvio in England and ...

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NICE issues draft guidance for new medicine for patients with non small-cell lung cancer

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