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Continuing to make new medicines affordable for Australians
1 December 2017 - A new medicine to treat soft tissue sarcoma will be available through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, giving ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2017
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 December 2017 update
1 December 2017 - The December 2017 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2017
Prioritise investment in the PBS to improve access to all cancer medicines
30 November 2017 - Medicines Australia response to the Senate Select Committee report “Funding for Research into Cancers with Low ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Nov 2017
We don’t need to change how we subsidise ‘breakthrough’ cancer treatments
27 November 2017 - New therapies that arm the immune system to fight cancer, such as Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and Yervoy ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Nov 2017
'Are you scared of dying, dad?': the constant uncertainty of immunotherapy
22 November 2017 - An intense feeling of foreboding would seize Ian Cant every three months. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Nov 2017
Chemotherapy compounder ID mandatory within PBS claims from 1 December 2017
22 November 2017 - From 1 December 2017, approved suppliers (approved pharmacists, approved medical practitioners and approved public and private ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2017
New 'powerful' cancer website for doctors
22 November 2017 - Quality national data on cancer in Australia is now available to clinicians via the National Cancer Control ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Nov 2017
Push to speed up access to treatment for cancer patients
21 November 2017 - Australian cancer patients are waiting twice as long those overseas to get access to life saving ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Oct 2017
Quentin Bryce in Canberra to support getting breast cancer drug listed on PBS
25 October 2017 - Former governor-general Dame Quentin Bryce has backed efforts to have a life-extending breast cancer drug that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2017
'We took a shot and it worked': Immunotherapy delivering results for cancer sufferers
16 October 2017 - Twenty-six-year-old Sydney engineering student Igor Mileusnic is a strapping picture of health. Two years ago he ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Oct 2017
Cancer groups want to stop classifying disease by the body part it grows in
16 October 2017 - They are the breakthrough medicines turning cancer from a death sentence into a chronic disease but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2017
PBS listing opens up a new medication era for leukaemia patients
9 October 2017 - The Leukaemia Foundation welcomes the Federal Government’s announcement today that the cancer medicine, Imbruvica (ibrutinib) will ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2017
Turnbull government subsidy gives hope to cancer sufferers
9 October 2017 - A breakthrough leukaemia and lymphoma drug that normally costs $187,000 per treatment will become easily affordable ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Sep 2017
Introduction of mandatory arrangements for PBS Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy claims
5 September 2017 - From 1 December 2017, approved suppliers will be required to enter a compounder ID when submitting ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Aug 2017
Making more life-changing medicines available to all Australians
30 August 2017 - The Australian Government is listing almost half a billion dollars’ worth of new medicines, providing sufferers of ...