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Rare lung cancer medication made available on the PBS
28 December 2018 - The Liberal National Government will make a medicine for a rare type of lung cancer caused by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Dec 2018
Life-prolonging drug for rare cancer sufferers to be made more affordable with PBS listing
28 December 2018 - A life-prolonging medicine for sufferers of a rare lung cancer is to be made available for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2018
PBS - 2018 in review
13 December 2018 - The high number of new listings on the PBS in 2018 serves to debunk Bill Shorten's ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2018
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 December 2018
1 December 2018 - The December 2018 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2018
New PBS listing vital to Australians living with acute myeloid leukaemia
30 November 2018 - Leukaemia Foundation CEO Mr Bill Petch has today supported the Health Minister Mr Greg Hunt’s PBS ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Nov 2018
Five more cancer drugs go on the PBS
30 November 2018 - Australian cancer sufferers will have greater and more affordable access to five treatments from Saturday. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Nov 2018
'Death sentence': One-in-a-million rare cancers get the 'sorting hat' treatment
13 November 2018 - For people with the rarest of cancers, the hope of survival or an effective treatment can ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Nov 2018
PBAC shows no propensity to support Amgen's innovative method of analysis
12 November 2018 - Amgen's recent submission for blinatumomab (Blincyto) treatment of patients with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in haematological ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Oct 2018
Potent drugs to treat lung cancer and high cholesterol added to PBS
28 October 2018 - Australians with advanced lung cancer and a genetic high-cholesterol condition will have cheaper access to potent ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Oct 2018
Mum's battle for life-saving drug
12 October 2018 - At just 29 years of age, doting mother Kate McKenzie has faced more battles than anyone ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Oct 2018
Leukaemia treatment: patients ‘cured’ by new CAR-T therapy
12 October 2018 - Patients battling deadly leukaemia will be “cured” by a breathtaking new therapy that can kill cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2018
How drug treatment in Hong Kong changed Aussie cancer sufferer’s life
7 October 2018 - When Lisa Laird was diagnosed with metastatic cancer, she found hope in a new drug she could ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Oct 2018
Life-saving drug out of reach for Queensland mum at $100k a year
3 October 2018 - Brisbane mother Kate McKenzie has a prescription ready; it’s sitting in her car waiting to be ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Oct 2018
Kidney cancer therapy works but cost is a killer
2 October 2018 - Darryl Black was told he had just three months to live. That was almost four years ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2018
PBS listing timelines for new checkpoint inhibitors
1 October 2018 - The PBAC examined their PBS listing timelines at its recent special meeting. ...