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Reform of the Orphan Drug Program - transition arrangements
1 May 2017 - The Orphan Drug Program provides an incentive for sponsors to bring medicines for a small population to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Apr 2017
Cancer Drugs Fund condemned as expensive and ineffective
28 April 2017 - Treatments approved by David Cameron’s scheme were not worth money, extended life very little and often had ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Apr 2017
Submissions received and TGA response: orphan drug program
18 April 2017 - The TGA would like to thank respondents who provided submissions in response to the October 2016 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Feb 2017
Grassley launches inquiry into orphan drugs after KHN investigation
10 February 2017 - Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has opened an inquiry into potential ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jan 2017
Republicans are courting disaster on health care
4 January 2017 - And so it begins. After six years of posturing and futile votes to repeal the Affordable ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jan 2017
Republicans’ 4 step plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act
4 January 2017 - Vice President-elect Mike Pence and the top Republicans in Congress made clear on Wednesday, more powerfully ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jan 2017
GOP wins first Obamacare fight in Senate budget vote
4 January 2017 - Republicans won the first skirmish in the Obamacare fight Wednesday, voting to begin debating fast-track budget ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jan 2017
2016 in review
4 January 2017 - The PBAC considered 192 submissions in 2016; 193 were considered by the Committee in 2015. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jan 2017
The NICE year in review
3 January 2017 - NICE has reflected on some of the news over the past twelve months. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2017
Coalition to simplify private health policies
2 January 2016 - The Turnbull government will consider a plan to streamline thousands of private health insurance policies into ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jan 2017
Job No. 1 for a new Congress? Undoing Obama’s health law
31 December 2016 - The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has said that repealing the Affordable Care Act would be the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Dec 2016
Maintaining insurance access under Trump - a strategy
28 December 2016 - Donald Trump’s election as President puts the future of the Affordable Care Act in jeopardy. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Dec 2016
Charting a new drug review pathway
25 December 2016 - Why the regulators at the FDA must think surgeons. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Dec 2016
Republicans are in denial on health care
23 December 2016 - Republican critics of the Affordable Care Act have long described it as a house of cards ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2016
Democrats seek Trump's cooperation on drug price reform
20 December 2016 - A group of Democratic senators took their plans to tackle rising drug costs to President-elect Donald ...