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Family of baby spending first birthday in hospital with pneumococcal complications calls for vaccine switch
13 September 2022 - At first, doctors thought it was a common virus. Baby Eloise Swadel had a cough and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2022
Mum fears dance loving toddler will lose ability to walk without unfunded drug
1 August 2022 - An Auckland toddler who loves to dance may soon be unable to walk or stand if ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 May 2022
Budget 2022: two year old girl and mum travel to Wellington in hopes of getting funding for devastating spinal illness
19 May 2022 - Dozens of people are travelling to Wellington for the Budget to highlight concerns about sick children ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2021
Family says choice is life in Australia or death waiting for PHARMAC
2 August 2021 - A Tauranga couple is splitting up their family so their daughter can access treatment for spinal muscular ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2021
PHARMAC ensuring supply of prednisolone to treat children with respiratory conditions
19 July 2021 - PHARMAC is working hard to ensure on-going supply of an important medicine used to treat respiratory conditions ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2021
PHARMAC has for decades refused to fund Synagis drug that could save vulnerable babies from RSV
14 July 2021 - Newshub can reveal after two decades of refusing to fund a drug that could halve the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jun 2021
'We're not just all about the money' — PHARMAC defends why it still won't fund drug for rare children's disorder
3 June 2021 - Under-fire PHARMAC is defending the way it funds New Zealand's drugs, with the agency's director of operations, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 May 2021
Jacinda Ardern listening to calls for PHARMAC to fund 13 year old's life-changing drugs, but nothing she can do
25 May 2021 - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she's listening to calls for life-changing drugs to be made more ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2021
'Intimidating' PHARMAC move may lead to child cancer drug delays
6 May 2021 - Two of New Zealand's leading cancer experts have slammed PHARMAC's proposal to take away the special exemption ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2021
PHARMAC asked to fund drug for children with spinal muscular atrophy after it changes four year old's life
5 May 2021 - Four year old Charlotte Bond couldn’t roll over by herself two years ago. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2021
Andrew Little not pleased with Children's Commissioner comments on potential PHARMAC move
4 May 2021 - Heath Minister Andrew Little says he expects better of the Children's Commissioner after he described a potential ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2021
Children's Commissioner worried PHARMAC will cut children's access to cancer drugs
4 May 2021 - Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft is warning PHARMAC not to play one group of children with a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2021
PHARMAC likely to end blanket funding for kids’ cancer drugs
3 May 2021 - A woman trying to get drugs funded for young spinal muscular atrophy patients was horrified when PHARMAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Feb 2021
Teen thriving on PHARMAC funded medicine
9 February 2021 - 14 year old Bruno Cettina is living his best life thanks to a medicine funded by PHARMAC. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Nov 2020
Decision to widen access to treatments for juvenile idiopathic arthritis
11 November 2020 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce a decision to widen access to adalimumab and etanercept for the ...