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1.4 million more people at risk of severe COVID-19 to have access to antiviral Paxlovid
11 January 2024 - A further 1.4 million people who have an increased risk for progression to severe COVID-19 will be ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Oct 2023
Abiraterone: thousands of men miss out on life-extending prostate cancer drug
24 October 2023 - Thousands of patients in England and Northern Ireland are missing out on a life-extending prostate cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Sep 2023
Essential medicines lists are for high income countries too
5 September 2023 - On 26 July 2023, the World Health Organization published the 23rd edition of its essential medicines list.1 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2023
GP leaders advise practices not to prescribe cholesterol lowering drug inclisiran
1 August 2023 - Local GP leaders across the south of England have told practices not to follow the NHS’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jun 2023
New drugs pilot to tackle obesity and cut NHS waiting lists
7 June 2023 - More people living with obesity will have access to the newest and most effective obesity drugs to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 May 2023
Family seek to raise money for lung cancer drug
29 May 2023 - A family has raised £12,000 to pay for a cancer drug for their mother, which was ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2023
Access to cancer medicines in the UK
1 May 2023 - On 31 January 2020, the UK formally ended it's 47 year membership of the EU. As a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Apr 2023
‘A global outlier’: how drug firms are fighting back against UK tax increases
13 April 2023 - With the UK tax on net sales of branded medicines quadrupling over the past three years, medicine ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Mar 2023
Ozempic-like weight loss drug Wegovy coming to the UK market, and it will cost a fraction of what Americans pay
3 March 2023 - Major drug store chains in the United Kingdom plan to start selling the weight loss drug Wegovy, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Feb 2023
Doctor with Stage 4 cancer is refused access to lifesaving treatment on the NHS
27 February 2023 - Dr Asha Umrawsingh, 50, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Feb 2023
UK’s most expensive drug Libmeldy saved Teddi Shaw, but is too late for her sister
16 February 2023 - A toddler with a rare inherited condition has become the first child to be treated by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Dec 2022
More than 5,200 people could benefit after NICE broadens recommendation on chronic lung disease treatment
14 December 2022 - NICE broadens recommendation on chronic lung disease treatment. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2022
UK will not buy Evusheld owing to “insufficient data” on protection, Government says
15 August 2022 - The UK Government has said that it will not procure the COVID-19 drug Evusheld—a combination of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2022
Dismay as UK ‘drags its heels’ on AZ’s COVID antibody Evusheld
12 August 2022 - Half a million people in the UK with conditions like blood cancer that prevents them being ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2022
NICE recommendation expands patient eligibility for AbbVie’s Ozurdex
12 August 2022 - Treatment becomes an option for treating visual impairment caused by diabetic macular oedema, regardless of lens ...