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Cancer patients to benefit from subsidies for new medicines
27 July 2019 - Patients will save tens of thousands of dollars a year on the cost of life saving cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jul 2019
Delays a matter of life and death
1 July 2019 - The shocking news that Aussie cancer patients are facing long waits for essential medicines is cause for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2019
Why it takes five years for life saving medicines to get funded
30 June 2019 - Cancer patients are waiting up to five years to access life-saving medicines as spending on the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jun 2019
Agenda for the August 2019 PBAC intracycle meeting
27 June 2019 - The agenda for the PBAC meeting to be held on 23 August 2019 is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jun 2019
Why the Coalition must adopt Labor’s cancer plans
19 June 2019 - As cancer doctors, we know the hardest words we can say to our patients are “you ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2019
The EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire for cancer patients (QLQ‐C30): Australian general population reference values
17 June 2019 - Mercieca‐Bebber and colleagues set out generate Australian general population reference values for the EORTC Quality of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jun 2019
Incorporating future medical costs: impact on cost-effectiveness analysis in cancer patients
12 June 2019 - The inclusion of future medical costs in cost-effectiveness analyses remains a controversial issue. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jun 2019
Celebrity brain surgeon faces threat of disciplinary action
12 June 2019 - Brain surgeon Charlie Teo’s dramatic claim he may be forced out of medicine comes as he ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jun 2019
More than 60,000 back petition calling for Dr Charlie Teo to operate in public hospitals
11 June 2019 - A petition calling for Dr Charlie Teo to be allowed to operate in public hospitals has already ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jun 2019
Charlie Teo 'frenzy' likened to Lindy Chamberlain
11 June 2019 - An Australian surgeon has likened the treatment of neurosurgeon Dr Charlie Teo to the frenzy surrounding ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jun 2019
Australia’s world-renowned brain surgeon Charlie Teo says his critics will ‘eventually get me’
9 June 2019 - The beloved Australian surgeon has slammed ‘the governing medical bodies’ for ‘gunning’ for him. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jun 2019
Charlie Teo brain surgery controversy: society gives assurances
1 June 2019 - One of Australia’s foremost neurosurgeons has branded as “disheartening” the practice of cancer sufferers seeking public ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2019
Charlie Teo: celebrity surgeon’s prices ‘challenged by insurers’
30 May 2019 - The prices charged by brain surgeon Charlie Teo have been challenged by insurers and Medicare in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2019
Charlie Teo: brain surgeon defends six-figure op costs
29 May 2019 - Brain surgeon Charlie Teo has told a television host to get her facts straight after he ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2019
Terminal brain cancer patient shares painful health insurance lesson, as more Aussies ditch cover
28 May 2019 - When doctors discovered a tumour bigger than a golf ball in the middle of Nick Stephens’ ...