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The situation in New Zealand can only be described as dire
11 August 2022 - The available evidence for 2022 suggests the innovative pharmaceutical industry has very little interested in preparing/lodging ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2021
Cystic fibrosis medicine added to PHARMAC's options for investment list
27 October 2021 - PHARMAC has announced that Vertex’s triple combination modulator therapy, known in some countries as Trikafta, has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2019
DHB backs PHARMAC in making ‘hard calls’
7 August 2019 - Hauora Tairawhiti has a role of supporting drugs-funding agency PHARMAC in its ‘‘hard calls” but not ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2019
PHARMAC considers funding breast cancer drug Kadcyla advocates have been fighting for
7 August 2019 - The Government's drug-buying agency PHARMAC is considering funding three new drugs - including one which advocates ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jun 2019
Epilepsy medicine worry
24 June 2019 - A controversial change of epilepsy drug funding could see her and thousands of other people with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 May 2019
PHARMAC sheds a little more light on procedures in savvy political move
1 May 2019 - Steve Maharey has just secured special status on David Clark's Christmas card list. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2018
New Zealand women with advanced breast cancer are dying faster than in other countries
6 October 2018 - Wiki Mulholland, 40 is calling for Ibrance to be funded by PHARMAC so more women can access ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Aug 2018
Proposal to move to one funded brand of lamotrigine (Logem)
29 August 2018 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposed change to the funding of lamotrigine dispersible tablets used ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2017
Iron infusions in the community
11 September 2017 - Eligible people will now be able to receive ferric carboxymaltose iron infusions in some general practitioners’ ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2017
Daughters' fight to save father's life
25 July 2017 - When Maria and Loren Calder found out their father had lung cancer, they didn't think they ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2017
No PHARMAC help for Crohn’s sufferer
20 May 2017 - On the outside, Dunedin Hospital nurse Dana Smith (23) looks like a healthy young person, but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2017
Proposal for various medicines in the neurology, immunology and nephrology therapeutic areas
21 April 2017 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal relating to certain medicines in the neurology, immunology and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Mar 2016
Melanoma drug Keytruda should be funded in NZ, Labour says
6 March 2016 - The melanoma drug Keytruda should be funded here, Labour says -- despite the head of PHARMAC saying ...