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Top level push for taxpayer funding of weight loss drugs gathers pace
3 July 2025 - Pharma giants are sweating on the results of a federal government request for guidance on adding weight ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jul 2025
Calls for 'missing piece' menopause drug to be added to the PBS
2 July 2025 - A key treatment which could help around one million middle-aged Australian women remains unaffordable to many ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jul 2025
Life-saving breast cancer drug now cheaper thanks to expansion of the PBS
1 July 2025 - A potentially life-saving treatment for early-stage breast cancer will become much more affordable for hundreds of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jul 2025
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 July 2025
1 July 2025 - The July 2025 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jul 2025
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 July 2025
1 July 2025 - The July 2025 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jun 2025
Australians with cystic fibrosis benefit from life changing expanded listing
24 June 2025 - More Australians living with cystic fibrosis will have affordable access to a life changing treatment option ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jun 2025
‘Barriers lifted’: cystic fibrosis treatment reaches final waiting patients
23 June 2025 - Ex-Wallabies player Nathan Charles has lived with cystic fibrosis for decades. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jun 2025
‘The sky’s the limit’: how Australian scientists rewrote the cancer script
20 June 2025 - A major shift in cancer treatment will be publicly funded and is set to dramatically increase the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2025
PHARMAC funding U turn for patients
16 June 2025 - Associate Health Minister David Seymour says the oestradiol patch funding decision is an example of PHARMAC’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2025
PHARMAC to fund two brands of oestradiol patches from 1 December 2025
16 June 2025 - PHARMAC will fund two brands of oestradiol patches – Estradot and Estradiol TDP Mylan – from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jun 2025
UCB's new psoriasis biologic Bimzelx debuts in Korea with reimbursement
13 June 2025 - Belgium-based UCB's novel psoriasis therapy, Bimzelx (bimekizumab), has officially entered Korea's competitive plaque psoriasis market with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jun 2025
Gilead’s Trodelvy wins Korean coverage for breast cancer -- too late for some and still off-limits up front
12 June 2025 - It took two years, 100,000 signatures, and a wave of public pressure from patients and doctors. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jun 2025
Calls for weight loss drugs like Ozempic to be subsidised for people with schizophrenia
11 June 2025 - Queensland researchers are calling for weight loss medicines to be listed on the PBS for people ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jun 2025
MSD Korea wins coverage boost for transplant infection drug Prevymis
4 June 2025 - MSD Korea has won expanded reimbursement for Prevymis (letermovir), extending coverage from 100 to 200 days ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jun 2025
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 June 2025
1 June 2025 - The June 2025 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...