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National to roll back free prescription fees to pay for 13 cancer treatments
21 August 2023 - The National Party wants to bring back the $5 prescription fee for those who can afford ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Aug 2023
PHARMAC proposes widening access to a brain cancer treatment to help reduce the impact of a discontinuation
11 August 2023 - PHARMAC is proposing to widen access to temozolomide, an oral anti-cancer treatment, for people with a type ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 May 2023
Ovarian cancer: Bay of Plenty mother spends more than $130,000 on treatments
12 May 2023 - Four cancer treatments in three years: $132,775. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Apr 2023
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 April 2023
1 April 2023 The April 2023 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Mar 2023
‘When’s our turn?’ PHARMAC's new funding won't cover breast cancer fighter's $100k bill
13 March 2023 - Hayley Steele has a hefty price tag on her life, one worth almost $100,000. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Mar 2023
PHARMAC funds two new treatments for lung cancer
7 March 2023 - PHARMAC has announced the funding of two new medicines - pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and atezolizumab (Tecentriq) for people ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2023
'Death sentence' for mum with skin cancer without $100k for the drugs she needs
3 March 2023 - Jen Rowlands, 43, faces certain death from terminal cancer without a specific drug that could radically improve ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Dec 2022
PHARMAC consulting on two new medicines for lung cancer
16 December 2022 - PHARMAC has reached provisional agreements with two different suppliers to fund two medicines to treat New Zealanders ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2022
Miracle medicines: a cancer specialist sends a message to PHARMAC
11 December 2022 - Let's make one thing crystal clear: effective chemotherapeutic drugs make a tremendous difference to survival outcomes ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Nov 2022
The cruellest tax: clipping the ticket on unfunded cancer drugs
28 November 2022 - Jo McKenzie-McLean’s life was turned upside down after a stage 4 bowel cancer diagnosis. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2022
Kiwi myeloma cancer sufferers don’t have access to daratumumab, a drug available in Australia
21 November 2022 - Kiwi cancer sufferers are being denied a drug that saves lives in other countries, including Australia ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Nov 2022
PHARMAC welcomes Myeloma NZ as first patient advocacy group to present to PTAC
21 November 2022 - Myeloma New Zealand presented directly to PHARMAC’s Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee (PTAC) on Thursday, making ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2022
Woman who has to pay $115k for unfunded cancer drug asks: 'What price is a life?'
5 November 2022 - More than anything, Annemarie Hope-Cross wants to live. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Oct 2022
New PHARMAC funded drug will help in the cancer battle - but it's still not enough
5 October 2022 - Lung Foundation New Zealand CEO Philip Hope says funding by PHARMAC of a new cancer drug is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Sep 2022
Prostate cancer: Tauranga man spends $212,000 on treatment
24 September 2022 - Five thousand and five hundred dollars every 28 days - more than $200,000 so far. ...