PHARMAC funds more cancer and respiratory medicines for New Zealanders

6 December 2024 - More publicly funded medicines are on the way for people with types of breast and lung ...

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New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 December 2024

1 December 2024 - The December 2024 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...

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Changes to the PBS listings for Opdualag and Vyxeos

1 December 2024 - As of 1 December 2024, combination chemotherapy medicines, Opdualag and Vyxeos, will be transitioned from the Highly ...

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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 December 2024

1 December 2024 - The December 2024 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...

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Life changing endometriosis treatment now cheaper

1 December 2024 - For the first time in three decades, women living with endometriosis will now have access to ...

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Australians benefit from new and expanded medicines on the PBS

20 November 2024 - Australians with osteoporosis, a type of skin lymphoma, spinal muscular atrophy and type 2 diabetes will ...

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New heart medicine for 18,000 New Zealanders

12 November 2024 - PHARMAC has decided to fund the medicine empagliflozin for thousands of people with a type of ...

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Newly funded medicine to benefit 110 more people with thyroid, liver, and kidney cancer

8 November 2024 - PHARMAC has decided to fund lenvatinib from 1 December 2024 for people with some types of ...

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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 November 2024 update

1 November 2024 - The November 2024 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...

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New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 November 2024

1 November 2024 - The November 2024 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...

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Roche Canada announces Columvi (glofitamab for injection) is publicly reimbursed in 7 provinces, including Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland

9 October 2024 - Columvi is now publicly covered in 7 provinces, which equates to approximately 74% of the total Canadian ...

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PHARMAC improves access to three cancer medicines

10 October 2024 - PHARMAC will improve access to three cancer medicines from 1 November 2024. ...

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Heart attack survivors find new treatment for recurrence risk

4 October 2024 - Mike Lynch was only 12 when his mother died of cardiovascular disease, in the years following he ...

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New cheaper medicines for auto-immune conditions, cancer and heart disease

8 October 2024 - Australians with types of vasculitis, leukaemia, heart disease, ulcerative colitis and arthritis now have access to ...

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World first cancer treatment now accessible for hundreds more Aussies as prices slashed with addition to the PBS

4 October 2024 - A world-first cancer treatment, discovered in Melbourne, has been added to the PBS. ...

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