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Exploration and preferential ranking of patient benefits of medical devices: a new and generic instrument for health economic assessments
25 October 2017 - For medical devices, benefits other than direct clinical effects may have a large impact on the patients’ ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2017
Taking patient heterogeneity and preferences into account in health technology assessments
25 October 2017 - The INTEGRATE-HTA project provided methodology to evaluate complex technologies. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2017
Call for anti-HIV drug to be funded
26 October 2017 - The AIDS Foundation says it's a fiscal no-brainier to fully fund a drug that prevents the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Oct 2017
Better health care helps fiscal health
24 October 2017 - The Treasurer’s recognition of the importance to the economy of integrated, patient-centred health care injects fresh ...
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 24 Oct 2017
Hundreds of people with diabetes are set to benefit from the funding of a new treatment that will help prevent blindness
24 October 2017 - From 1 November 2017 dexamethasone implants (brand name Ozurdex) will be funded for eligible people with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Oct 2017
Can ad hoc analyses of clinical trials help personalise treatment decisions?
23 October 2017 - The value of ad hoc analyses of clinical trials may not be clear. Ad hoc analyses are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Oct 2017
AMA submission - Government proposals to increase biosimilar prescribing
19 October 2017 - The Australian Medical Association encourages medical practitioners to offer generic medicine choices when it is safe and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2017
The serious flaw in Canada's health care system: prescription drugs aren't free
20 October 2017 - It’s often held up as an example to the world, but the Canadian system doesn’t cover essential ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2017
Health care underfunded for too long
23 October 2017 - The death of an elderly man - who broke his hip and died after surgery was ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2017
NICE bars NHS access to Lenvima, Nexavar for thyroid cancer
23 October 2017 - NHS treatment cost regulators have published draft guidelines rejecting funding for Eisai’s Lenvima and Bayer’s Nexavar ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2017
GSK wins U.S. shingles vaccine approval, UK nod for gene therapy
23 October 2017 - GlaxoSmithKline has won U.S. approval for a new and improved shingles vaccine, the second of three ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2017
NICE approves gene therapy for rare ‘bubble baby syndrome’
23 October 2017 - Strimvelis, a treatment for an ultra-rare inherited immune deficiency condition that has been dubbed ‘bubble baby syndrome’ ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2017
NHS to fund gene therapy for 'bubble babies'
23 October 2017 - The NHS will fund gene therapy for the first time, with a £500,000 treatment for “bubble ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2017
Taxpayer-funded drugs 'too expensive for patients’
22 October 2017 - Taxpayer-funded medical research is producing medicines which are increasingly unaffordable for patients who need them, says ...