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‘I’d rather be a lab rat than a dead rat’: How Julie beat cancer death sentence
2 July 2017 - The death sentence left her dry retching in a basin in the corner of a doctor’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jul 2017
Adding more medicines to the PBS to help more patients
30 June 2017 - The Australian Government continues to make medicines available and more affordable for Australians with new listings worth ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jun 2017
Rare cancer sufferers given reprieve with new drug subsidy
30 June 2017 - Sufferers of a rare blood cell cancer will get cheap access to a new drug after ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2017
Cancer has biggest impact on our health: research
16 June 2017 - If you or your family have been touched by cancer, you will know this already, but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jun 2017
'The wrong cancer': Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme failing rare cancer sufferers
11 June 2017 - In some ways, Sarah McGoram and her husband Tom have been incredibly lucky in life. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jun 2017
Actuaries push for insurers to pay cancer patients upfront
8 June 2017 - The Actuaries Institute and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia are calling for private health insurers ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jun 2017
Recommendation made by the PBAC - April 2017
2 June 2017 - PBAC publishes single outcome from out of session meeting. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 May 2017
Poor funding for research, treatment means lower survival rates for rare cancers
17 May 2017 - Tracey Trumper had already survived breast cancer when she was hit last year with a devastating ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2017
Push to cut cancer drug cost
10 May 2017 - Women with advanced breast cancer have been offered a new lifeline — but it comes at ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 May 2017
Cancer sufferer pushes for life-changing drug palbociclib to be subsidised in Australia
9 May 2017 - A far north Queensland woman is calling for a cancer drug she currently gets through monthly ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Apr 2017
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 May 2017
1 May 2017 - The 1 May 2017 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits sees a number of new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Apr 2017
Stan Zemanek’s widow Marcella calls for more funding into rare cancers
2 April 2017 - The widow of radio broadcaster Stan Zemanek has made an emotional plea to the federal government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2017
Rare cancer drug added to PBS
25 March 2017 - A drug used to treat a rare form of cancer now widely available through the national ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2017
Public summary document for Keytruda (pembrolizumab)
22 March 2017 - The public summary document for pembrolizumab for the treatment of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer from the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Mar 2017
Chemotherapy compounding payment scheme - extension to the non-mandatory claiming period
17 March 2017 - The proposed date for mandatory inclusion of the Compounder ID with eligible EFC claims is being ...