31 May 2021 - Apotex has announced that it is leaving the New Zealand market. ...
21 May 2021 - PHARMAC accepts the Coroner’s comments that not all information about the brand change reached patients. ...
17 March 2021 - PHARMAC's generic drug swap for epilepsy treatment saved $30 million over five years. But for some ...
4 March 2021 - An Auckland paediatric neurologist says PHARMAC's decision to switch to a generic version of an epilepsy drug ...
24 February 2021 - PHARMAC knew there were clinical reasons some epilepsy patients would not tolerate a change to their ...
24 February 2021 - PHARMAC knew there were clinical reasons some epilepsy patients would not tolerate a change to their medicines. ...
23 February 2021 - The medicines safety authority advised PHARMAC it was “not desirable” for patients to switch brands of ...
23 February 2021 - The drug at the centre of an inquest into six epilepsy deaths was made at a plant ...
22 February 2021 - A coronial inquiry into the deaths of six patients whose epilepsy medication was changed before they ...
30 November 2020 - Two GPs caring for patients who died after switching brands of an epilepsy drug say they were ...
28 November 2020 - Michelle Townes believes her 31-year-old son died because the brand of his Government funded drug was switched. ...
29 November 2020 - The first official recognition that changing brands of epilepsy drugs may have been a factor in at ...
22 July 2020 - Testing commissioned by Patient Voice Aotearoa, a patient advocacy group, shows the three medicines given in New ...
21 July 2020 - It has been more than nine months since PHARMAC switched to funding epilepsy drug Logem – a ...
13 July 2020 - A patient advocate group says a pharmaceutical giant's decision to pull out of the New Zealand ...