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Cancer Society slams PHARMAC's treatment of patients
20 March 2019 - The Cancer Society says New Zealand patients are worse off than those in Australia. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Mar 2019
Women with advanced breast cancer ask the PM to intervene
15 March 2019 - On Wednesday 13 March, ten women with advanced breast cancer presented to the Health Select Committee to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Mar 2019
Terminal breast cancer patients push for PHARMAC inquiry and the funding of life-preserving drugs
13 March 2019 - Crowd-funding website Givealittle shouldn't be used to plug the gaps in Government drug-buying agency Pharmac's provisions ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Mar 2019
PHARMAC funding should be doubled - breast cancer advocate
13 March 2019 - A breast cancer advocate believes PHARMAC needs to have its funding doubled to better serve New ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Mar 2019
Women with advanced breast cancer ask health select committee for PHARMAC review
13 March 2019 - Ten women today spoke one after the other, telling a committee of MPs how desperately they ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Mar 2019
Women's cancer fight reaches Parliament and Health select committee
13 March 2019 - Six months after presenting petitions to Parliament calling for better access to life-prolonging medicine, Sue Wall-Cade ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Mar 2019
Prioritise lung cancer treatments, patients tell MPs
7 March 2019 - Lung cancer patients are launching a petition for MPs to back more treatments at a drug funding ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2019
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 March 2019 update
1 March 2019 - The March 2019 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2019
Kiwi women fighting for early ovarian cancer diagnosis and access to drugs
28 February 2019 - Sue Duncan,56, a midwife who lives in Cambridge, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in January 2017. She ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Feb 2019
Medicines for rare disorders
13 February 2019 - PHARMAC is working on policy and funding for medicines for rare disorders. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Feb 2019
PHARMAC to review its practices following criticism of breast cancer drug funding
13 February 2019 - The government's drug-buying agency has announced it has begun an internal review following a petition and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Feb 2019
Breast cancer patients die while waiting for medicines
12 February 2019 - Women with terminal breast cancer will be sharing their heartfelt stories with MPs about the dire ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Feb 2019
Government should spend money on cancer treatment, not gender reassignment
11 February 2019 - Should the government fund gender reassignment surgeries? ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2019
Wellbeing budget total nonsense when too many are dying early
9 November 2019 - Five women who marched on Parliament last year for access to the best cancer drugs on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2019
When cancer is political
8 February 2019 - Should cancer be politicised? And, should the debate about it be personalised, with a focus on ...