Blog
RSS FeedPosted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2019
Biogen responds to CADTH’s updated recommendation regarding coverage for Spinraza
1 March 2019 - CADTH has expanded their recommendations for public reimbursement for SMA patients. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Mar 2019
New HIV drug gets cheaper with subsidies
1 March 2019 - Australians living with HIV will soon have another treatment drug available to them at a more ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2019
PBAC public summary documents - November 2018 meeting
1 March 2019 - The public summary documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the November 2018 PBAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2019
Drug prices aren’t a big problem, but Ottawa’s trying to control the market anyway
28 February 2019 - New policies will reduce access to new medicines for patients and impose massive new costs on taxpayers. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2019
Address health care costs not just insurance, says Medibank
28 February 2019 - Medibank Private has told federal Labor it should focus on industry-wide health care cost "drivers" and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2019
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 March 2019 update
1 March 2019 - The March 2019 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2019
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 March 2019 update
1 March 2019 - The March 2019 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2019
After 16 reviews we know how to fix health care, experts say
28 February 2019 - After 16 national reviews in 35 years, the road map for improving the health care system ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2019
Kiwi women fighting for early ovarian cancer diagnosis and access to drugs
28 February 2019 - Sue Duncan,56, a midwife who lives in Cambridge, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in January 2017. She ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Feb 2019
While some patients pay for biologic drugs, prison inmates get them for free
26 February 2019 - The Correctional Service of Canada spent more than $100 million over three-and-a-half years to provide inmates ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Feb 2019
Health insurance reforms to bring more clarity to coverage
26 February 2019 - With only a month to go before the annual hike in private health insurance premiums, many ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Feb 2019
'Depriving sick babies of right to life' - NZORD boss blasts PHARMAC decision to defer Spinraza
28 February 2019 - Clinical experts deciding whether to fund a drug that would prolong the life of babies with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Feb 2019
Pharma industry swamped with no-deal Brexit info, says BIA
27 February 2019 - Deluge comes just as prime minister hints at delay. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Feb 2019
Economic analysis falls short when it comes to medicines’ value
26 February 2019 - For the past two decades, a plethora of organisations identified by various innocuous acronyms (e.g., NICE) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Feb 2019
They can’t get their medicines. So they’re moving to Scotland.
26 February 2019 - Families in England are preparing to leave the country in a desperate bid to obtain a cystic ...