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Recommendations made by the PBAC - July 2017
18 August 2017 - The recommendations from the July 2017 PBAC meeting are now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2017
Posting of key milestones for CDR projects
14 August 2017 - Key milestones for CDR submissions, resubmissions, and requests for advice will now be posted within the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2017
NICE turns down kidney cancer drugs
14 August 2017 - It is looking unlikely that patients in England and Wales with advanced renal cell carcinoma will ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2017
Costs eat into private health incentives
14 August 2017 - The financial incentive to take out private health insurance is fast diminishing for tens of thousands ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2017
Private health insurance: tactics to lure young people ineffective, Senate told
11 August 2017 - Under-30s need to be shown the cover is relevant to them and worth their while in terms ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2017
Breast cancer sufferer Claire McLintock fundraising for new drug palbociclib
12 August 2017 - Claire McLintock knows she will eventually die of cancer. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2017
New cervical cancer vaccine may almost eliminate disease, research shows
10 August 2017 - Cervical cancer could be almost completely eliminated, research has found, thanks to a new vaccine being ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Aug 2017
Patients getting faster access to cancer drugs as NICE approves three quarters of the Cancer Drugs Fund
10 August 2017 - Liver cancer drug, sorafenib has been approved for routine NHS use, marking three quarters of the way ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
Comprehensive assessment of complex technologies: integrating various aspects in health technology assessment
7 August 2017 - Despite recent development of health technology assessment (HTA) methods, there are still methodological gaps for the assessment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
NICE supports the use of another treatment option for patients with renal cell carcinoma on the NHS
9 August 2017 - NICE has completed its appraisal of cabozantinib maleate for patients with previously treated advanced renal cell ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
NICE publishes final guidance for baricitinib
9 August 2017 - NICE has published final guidance on the use of baricitinib for the treatment of patients with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
NICE recommends Erbitux
8 August 2017 - NICE recommends Erbitux in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for the treatment of recurrent and/or metastatic head and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
Health insurance comparison sites don’t address affordability: ombudsman
9 August 2017 - Comparison tools will not address the rising affordability concerns with health insurance, the commonwealth ombudsman has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
'We've got a health system that's the envy of the world,' minister tells cancer charities
9 August 2017 - The world is green with envy when it looks at our health system, Health Minister Jonathan ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
New report proposes radical reforms for rare cancer regulation
9 August 2017 - The first Lauren Poole had heard of epithelioid sarcoma was the day she was told her ...