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PHARMAC back-tracks on plan to fund lung cancer drug Keytruda
22 April 2020 - PHARMAC has frozen plans to fund a lung cancer drug that would have helped at least ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Apr 2020
COVID-19: Government funds $276m for PPE, PHARMAC and residential aged care
18 April 2020 - The Government will spend almost $300m of its COVID-19 relief fund to buy more PPE, fund medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2020
'Pharmacies run off their feet': people waiting days for prescriptions
17 April 2020 - Some patients are waiting days to have their prescriptions filled, with many community pharmacies struggling to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2020
Biopharmaceutical sector waging war on COVID-19 with over 60 vaccines and medicines
16 April 2020 - The World Health Organization has declared that COVID-19 is a pandemic and 144 countries across the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2020
Decision to list terbutaline sulphate powder for inhalation (Bricanyl Turbuhaler) in a new model of the Turbuhaler device
16 April 2020 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce that it has made some changes to the listing of terbutaline ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Apr 2020
Raising funds for a life-saving drug in the middle of lockdown
14 April 2020 - A Taranaki man who has to raise funds to pay for life-saving drugs is worried the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Apr 2020
New treatment "game changer" for cancer patient
8 April 2020 - A South Canterbury cancer patient is anticipating an easier treatment regime with Revlimid, which has now ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Apr 2020
Fluoxetine: supply issue
7 April 2020 - Supplies of fluoxetine capsules have arrived in New Zealand. It is awaiting release to wholesalers. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Apr 2020
COVID-19: shipment of anti-depressant drug fluoxetine held up by pandemic
4 April 2020 - An ongoing shortage of New Zealand's most common antidepressant during the COVID-19 lockdown has one psychiatrist ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Apr 2020
Proposal to fund modified release pancreatic enzyme granules (Creon Micro)
2 April 2020 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to fund a new modified-release granule formulation of pancreatic ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Apr 2020
PHARMAC widens funding for lenalidomide for those with blood cancer
1 April 2020 - Emma Holden was devastated when she learned she had multiple myeloma. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2020
COVID-19: cancer and rare disorder patients 'will die' if PHARMAC doesn't spend money on medicines
31 March 2020 - Those with cancer and rare medical conditions have asked the Prime Minister to relax PHARMAC's rules ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2020
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 April 2020 update
1 April 2020 - The April 2020 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Mar 2020
PHARMAC eases restrictions on cancer drugs during COVID-19 pandemic
31 March 2020 - PHARMAC will ease restrictions on at least nine cancer drugs, including Keytruda, for the treatment of advanced ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2020
Change to monthly dispensing
27 March 2020 - PHARMAC has changed Pharmaceutical Schedule rules that restrict the dispensing of funded community medicines to just one ...