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Family's $50,000 cost for dad's life-extending bowel cancer medicine
17 September 2020 - With a supportive wife, five daughters and eight grandchildren, Tony Sullivan has something to fight for. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Sep 2020
Crohn's sufferers running out of treatment options lobby PHARMAC for new drugs
20 September 2020 - An 11 year-old could languish in pain and lose more of her bowel without a drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Sep 2020
Decision to fund an additional brand of budesonide with eformoterol
18 September 2020 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce a decision to fund an additional brand of budesonide with eformoterol ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Sep 2020
Proposal to fund emicizumab for people with haemophilia A
18 September 2020 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to fund emicizumab (Hemlibra), a new treatment for people with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2020
Rare Disorders New Zealand supports Human Rights Commission case against PHARMAC
17 September 2020 - Rare Disorders New Zealand supports patient advocate Fiona Tolich’s Human Rights Commission case against PHARMAC for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2020
Government throwing billions at COVID-19 but not doubling PHARMAC budget 'makes no sense' - Malcolm Mullholland
17 September 2020 - The PHARMAC model is broken, according to an advocate for increased access to life-saving drugs in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2020
If money is no longer an issue, I have one request - double the PHARMAC budget
16 September 2020 - Long live the year 2020 - said no one ever. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2020
The road ahead: 'What two more years of life could mean'
16 September 2020 - In May 2018, Mulholland was diagnosed with breast cancer. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2020
National's health policy - more money for PHARMAC, elective surgery guarantees
16 September 2020 - The National Party is promising record funding increases for PHARMAC, a new cancer agency, faster elective surgeries ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Sep 2020
Cancer patients call on Government to fund life-extending medicines
12 September 2020 - Cancer patients are calling on the Government to fund a drug called Cetux. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2020
PHARMAC seeking views on widened access to juvenile idiopathic arthritis medicines
11 September 2020 - PHARMAC is looking at widening access to three funded treatments – adalimumab, etanercept and tocilizumab – to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2020
New diabetes drug funding format is “unethical”
10 September 2020 - An organisation which has campaigned to change the drugs used in New Zealand to treat type ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2020
PHARMAC opens consultation to address New Zealand’s biggest health issue
9 September 2020 - Proposal to list type 2 diabetes medicine Jardiance. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2020
PHARMAC seeking views on new type 2 diabetes medicines
9 September 2020 - PHARMAC is looking at funding two new medicines with substantial health benefits for up to 50,000 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Sep 2020
Nurse specialists say plight of severely ill bowel disease patients in NZ is bitterly unfair
8 September 2020 - Senior Clinical Nurse specialists caring for some of New Zealand’s sickest bowel disease patients say the ...