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First young children now taking life changing cystic fibrosis treatment on NHS
12 February 2022 - One of the first children to receive the game changing cystic fibrosis treatment, Kaftrio, on the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Feb 2022
New life-extending drug for advanced womb cancer to be rolled out on the NHS
8 February 2022 - A 30 minute treatment, the first of its kind for advanced womb cancer, is being rolled ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Feb 2022
NICE terminates yet another appraisal of daratumumab
9 December 2022 - NICE has attempted to appraise daratumumab six times; three have had to be terminated. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Feb 2022
More than 100 people a year in England could benefit from new endometrial cancer treatment within the Cancer Drugs Fund
8 February 2022 - Innovative new drug for treating endometrial cancer in adults recommended by NICE as an option for use ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2022
NICE misses golden opportunity to enhance access to innovative cancer drugs
7 February 2022 - Cancer patients will miss out on exciting new treatments after NICE passed up a golden opportunity ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2022
NICE recommends new drug for people living with obesity
8 February 2022 - Thousands of people living with obesity are set to benefit from a new drug which has helped ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2022
Not so NICE: cancer patients miss out on innovative new treatments
7 February 2022 - Institute for Cancer Research highlights missed opportunity for NICE to reform its cancer drug assessment processes ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Feb 2022
First gene therapy for rare genetic neurodegenerative disorder in children, recommended in NICE draft guidance
4 February 2022 - Children with a rare, fatal, genetic disorder will be able to benefit from a new one-off treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Feb 2022
Libmedly: world's 'most expensive' drug recommended for NHS use
4 February 2022 - The NHS has struck a confidential deal for what's thought to be the most expensive drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Feb 2022
Britain fines firms $47 million over price surge for NHS nausea pill
3 February 2022 - Britain's competition watchdog on Thursday fined five firms a total of 35 million pounds ($47.5 million) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Feb 2022
Timely intervention: first chronic kidney disease treatment in 20 years
3 February 2022 - Significant landmark as NICE recommends AstraZeneca's chronic kidney disease treatment Forxiga ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Feb 2022
Olaparib a 'no go' for patients with breast cancer in England
2 February 2022 - Olaparib has been approved to treat patients with BRCA mutation positive HER2 negative metastatic breast cancer after ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Feb 2022
ABPI analysis on NICE’s changes for evaluating new medicines: next steps
31 January 2022 - NICE has published a new Manual, which sets out how the latest medicines and health technologies ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Feb 2022
Equity in cancer drug access in the UK
1 February 2022 - In draft guidance published on 5 January 2022, NICE announced their decision not to recommend the use ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jan 2022
NICE publishes new combined methods and processes manual and topic selection manual for its health technology evaluation programmes
31 January 2022 - Changes to the way medicines and other health technologies are evaluated by NICE have now been incorporated ...