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Show me the money
21 August 2019 - PBS a huge area of savings compared to other government-administered services including medical and hospital costs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
Empirical evidence supports critics of Patented Medicine Prices Review Board regulations
21 August 2019 - Canadian Health Policy Institute, a Toronto-based private-sector think-tank established in 2012, has published several studies that bolster ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
Meningococcal B survivors push government for free vaccine
18 August 2019 - A vaccine exists for the most common strain of deadly meningococcal disease, yet the B vaccine is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
Chinese stealing health and medical research data: report
21 August 2019 - The global healthcare sector, including Australia, faces increasing cyber threats and malicious activity from Chinese groups, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
PTAC continues to find new ways to reject funding applications (part 1)
21 August 2019 - The minutes from the May 2019 PTAC meeting provide some interesting, some might say startling, insights. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
NICE’s fast-track catapults Skyrizi into market
21 August 2019 - Watchdog also gives direction on comparing rival treatments. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
NHS to reimburse Hemlibra
21 August 2019 - NHS England has commissioned Roche and Chugai’s joint haemophilia A drug, Hemlibra (emicizumab), agreeing to fund ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2019
NICE’s track record in cancer drugs: the impact of the CDF and interim funding
20 August 2019 - Cancer drugs and the decisions made by the UK’s NICE have been subject to much scrutiny ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2019
Life-saving cancer treatments could help 41,000 Aussies but they aren’t funded
20 August 2019 - Alisanne Ride was given six months to live before she started an expensive treatment that eliminated the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2019
Private health insurance woes escalate as premiums, out-of-pocket costs rise
20 August 2019 - The Morrison government is facing an escalating affordability crisis in private health insurance, as premiums continue ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2019
When will the mainstream media attacks end?
19 August 2019 - People calling for relaxation of the location rules are “motivated by self-interest and profit,” says the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2019
Quebec becomes first province to list Lonsurf (trifluridine/tipiracil) for public reimbursement for adult patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
19 August 2019 - Cancer treatment taken orally shown to extend overall survival in patients whose disease has progressed following treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2019
Government cancer plan: ‘strong leadership’, early access to medicines
20 August 2019 - PHARMAC’s model and budget is under intense scrutiny, as the Government prepares to announce its interim ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2019
NIB boss lambasts 'ideological' health insurance rules
19 August 2019 - NIB boss Mark Fitzgibbon has hit out at "ideological" rules from the "left of politics" that prevent ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2019
Case dismissed
19 August 2019 - Pharmacy Guild sees proceedings against Ramsay Health Care dismissed as court rules it cannot determine whether ...