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Advanced melanoma treatment to be added to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
21 January 2024 - Treatment for advanced melanoma is set to become cheaper under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2023
Recommendations made out of session by the PBAC March 2023 and July 2023 meetings – changes to MS-2 Step PBS listing
11 July 2023 - In an out of session consideration, the PBAC has recommended changes to the restriction criteria and eligible ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Apr 2023
‘An absolute game changer’: children under 12 to receive life saving drug
6 April 2023 - Hundreds of children with cystic fibrosis will have subsidised access to the life-changing medication Trikafta from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Apr 2022
PBS listing of Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir)
9 April 2022 - Commencing 1 May 2022, Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir) will be listed on the PBS as a General ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Apr 2022
PBAC recommendation for nirmatrelvir and ritonavir (Paxlovid) - March 2022
9 April 2022 - The PBAC undertook an expedited consideration of a submission to add the combination product, nirmatrelvir and ritonavir ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Apr 2022
Public Summary Documents – December 2021 PBAC meeting
1 April 2022 - The Public Summary Documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the December 2021 PBAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2022
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 April 2022
1 April 2022 - The April 2022 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2022
Landmark PBS listing for Australians with cystic fibrosis
27 March 2022 - From April 1 2022, Trikafta (elexacaftor with tezacaftor and ivacaftor and ivacaftor) will be available on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Feb 2022
‘New hope’: breakthrough cystic fibrosis treatment to be listed on PBS
14 February 2022 - Health Minister Greg Hunt says the breakthrough treatment for cystic fibrosis, Trikafta, will soon be able ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Feb 2022
'Lifesaving' cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta recommended for inclusion on PBS
1 February 2022 - Thousands of people with cystic fibrosis are one step closer to accessing a 'lifesaving' drug, after ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Jan 2022
'I feel like I'm drowning': thousands with cystic fibrosis wait to hear if 'life-saving' drug will be listed on PBS
27 January 2022 - Matt Dickinson was struggling to breathe when his mother rushed him to an Adelaide hospital earlier ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Aug 2021
Limited access to 'lifesaving' cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta under Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
24 August 2021 - A mother whose son lives with cystic fibrosis says young people are dying as they wait for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 May 2021
Families plead for PBS listing for ‘life-saving’ cystic fibrosis drug
8 May 2021 - A new drug is being hailed as a “game-changer” for cystic fibrosis sufferers as the government is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Apr 2021
The price of a Vertex cystic fibrosis treatment stirs anger in Australia
23 April 2021 - The latest dustup over the cost of cystic fibrosis medicines sold by Vertex Pharmaceuticals is taking ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Apr 2021
Cystic fibrosis survivor calls for Trikafta to be listed on PBS
5 April 2020 - At the age of 12, Kerrie Taylor was diagnosed with a rare form of cystic fibrosis. ...