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Battling cancer and fighting for funding
28 August 2018 - Dr Rosalie Stephens turns up to work these days with hope. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Aug 2018
Update on proposal to fund a pangenotypic hepatitis C treatment - glecaprevir and pibrentasvir (Maviret)
27 August 2018 - PHARMAC would like to thank everyone who provided feedback on a proposal to fund glecaprevir and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2018
Proposal to change the funded brand of epoetin alfa
21 August 2018 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposed change to the funded brand of epoetin alfa [erythropoietin ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2018
Treatment funded in Australia, but New Zealand brother misses out
21 August 2018 - James McGoram says the genetic disease he has is yet to affect his day-to-day life but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2018
Proposal to list nintedanib (Ofev) and remove restrictions from tiotropium bromide (Spiriva)
20 August 2018 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to list nintedanib (Ofev) and remove the current funding ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2018
PHARMAC funding of MS drugs "restrictive & cruel"
14 August 2018 - An Australian neurologist says the way PHARMAC's criteria for continuing access to drugs for multiple sclerosis ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2018
Declining HIV numbers bolstered by new prevention drug but more data needed
13 August 2018 - PHARMAC's decision earlier this year to fund anti-retroviral drug Truvada as a preventive treatment was hailed ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2018
MS patient tells of stress of meeting PHARMAC criteria
14 August 2018 - When Auckland man Brendan Rochford stopped being able to walk 500 m unaided, he lost his ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2018
Breast cancer sufferer calls for life-saving Kadcyla drug to be publicly funded
13 August 2018 - A cancer sufferer is calling for PHARMAC to fund a potentially life-saving drug. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2018
Duncan Garner: Dr Clark, this is life or death, please help
11 August 2018 - Health Minister David Clark promised in 2017 to provide cancer patients with world-class treatments. We're not seeing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2018
Desperate plea for increased medicines funding for cancer sufferers
9 August 2018 - The Government must increase funding for medicines desperately needed by people with breast cancer and other ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2018
'Balancing act' needed on unproven cancer drugs - Health Minister David Clark
9 August 2018 - The Health Minister is wary of side-stepping PHARMAC to buy newly developed cancer drugs, saying the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
NZ's cancer death rates worse than Australia's due to medicine inaccessibility - oncologist
7 August 2018 - The number of cancer deaths may increase if the country's approach to the disease isn't urgently ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
‘Survival of the richest’: Rich access drugs PHARMAC won’t fund
7 August 2018 - Oncologists including the cancer society's top doctor say the government's drug agency, PHARMAC, is failing to keep ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
PHARMAC takes three years to review brand-new cancer drugs and Kiwis are missing out
7 August 2018 - Kiwis are missing out on the latest cancer treatments because the government's drug agency, PHARMAC, is ...