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Outcomes of the May 2021 PBAC intracycle meeting
18 June 2021 - The outcomes from the May 2021 PBAC meeting are now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2021
Efficient funding of chemotherapy review - submissions on discussion paper
18 June 2021 - The efficient funding of chemotherapy review discussion paper was released on 21 May 2021 to gain ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2021
Let's have permanently quicker drug approvals
16 June 2021 - New drugs and vaccines likely to increase life expectancy, quality of life and save money, so we ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2021
Vaccine confusion as clots force jab switch for two million
17 June 2021 - Health authorities are scrambling to switch more than two million Australians aged under 60 to the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2021
Shared decision making underpins good health care
17 June 2021 - Shared decision making between service users and health care professionals is an integral part of health care, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2021
Expanded PBS listing to save Australians around $120,000 a year
17 June 2021 - More than 800 Australians with stage IV advanced or metastatic kidney cancer will now have improved access ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jun 2021
German law makers seek to ease reimbursement for advanced therapies
15 June 2021 - Advanced therapy trade group The Alliance for Regenerative Medicine has highlighted the passage of a new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2021
Health care funding decisions and real world benefits: reducing bias by matching untreated patients
14 June 2021 - Governments and health insurers often make funding decisions based on health gains from randomised controlled trials. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2021
How the patient voice is becoming vital for drug approval
14 June 2021 - Rebecca Sanders from Lipodystrophy UK tells us how the patient voice helped convince NICE to approve a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2021
Uptake of medicines for type 2 diabetes mellitus
15 June 2021 - Empagliflozin (with and without metformin hydrochloride) has been funded since 1 February 2021. It is funded for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jun 2021
Opdivo plus Yervoy scores NICE backing for certain bowel cancer patients
14 June 2021 - Bristol Myers Squibb’s immunotherapy combination Opdivo plus Yervoy has been recommended by NICE for the treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jun 2021
NICE to reassess Kyowa Kirin’s Poteligeo
14 June 2021 - NICE will reassess Kyowa Kirin’s rare blood cancer treatment Poteligeo after upholding an appeal launched by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jun 2021
PHARMAC’s decision over diabetes drugs could see up to 140,000 ‘miss out’, doctor says
11 June 2021 - Dr John Baker, the chair of the Diabetes Foundation Aotearoa, says that has to change and highlights ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jun 2021
Astellas’ Xtandi bags NICE approval in prostate cancer
10 June 2021 - Astellas’ oral treatment Xtandi has received approval from NICE for the treatment of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jun 2021
NICE recommends several treatment options to help thousands with moderate rheumatoid arthritis
10 June 2021 - Around 25,000 people with moderate rheumatoid arthritis that has not responded to conventional therapies are set to ...