Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Oct 2018
Medicine for rare disease made free on the Life Saving Drugs Program
1 November 2018 - The Australian Government has made a new medicine available for free for an extremely rare and potentially life-threatening disease, saving patients hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
From today, the Morrison Government will make a new medicine available for free for an extremely rare and potentially life-threatening disease, saving patients hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
The new medicine Galafold (migalastat) for the treatment of Fabry disease will be listed on the Life Saving Drugs Program, which provides free access to highly specialised medicines to treat patients with rare and life-threatening diseases.
