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21,000 to benefit from Mirena and Jaydess
14 October 2019 - PHARMAC is widening funded access to Mirena, as well as listing a new long-acting reversible contraceptive ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2019
Cancer patients to benefit from new PHARMAC funded drugs
8 October 2019 - Cancer patient advocates are welcoming PHARMAC's decision to pay for two new drugs but say New Zealand ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2019
Proposal to increase the subsidy for hexamine hippurate tablets and for flecainide acetate injection
8 October 2019 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to increase the subsidy payable for two currently funded ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
New PHARMAC drug funding approved but some New Zealanders still missing out
8 October 2019 - A Motueka woman living with multiple sclerosis is vowing to fight for access to a drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
'Left on the scrapheap': PHARMAC decision bittersweet for MS patients
7 October 2019 - A Motueka grandmother says the national drug-buying agency is abandoning her on the scrapheap with "inhumane" ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
Jacinda Ardern hails 'exciting phase' of cancer research as PHARMAC funds three new drugs
7 October 2019 - The $40 million boost to PHARMAC's funding has paid for three new medicines to be available ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
PHARMAC signs bundle deal for more cancer medicines
7 October 2019 - 420 New Zealanders with lung cancer, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis and respiratory disease will benefit each ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Oct 2019
Concern proposed bill may make cancer medication unaffordable for Kiwis
7 October 2019 - Every three months, a package containing cancer medication arrives at Trevor Gately's Nelson home from India. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Oct 2019
Mum 'hopeful' after baby Kaan Hunter starts $250k a year medication for rare bone disease
5 October 2019 - A mum whose baby was the first Kiwi to be diagnosed with a rare bone disease ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Oct 2019
Lamotrigine brand change from today
1 October 2019 - From today there will be one funded brand of lamotrigine - a medicine used to treat ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2019
Cancer medicines need to be part of the plan
1 October 2019 - BCAC is extremely disappointed to read that access to cancer medicines does not appear to be ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2019
Family's appeal to fund lifesaving US cancer treatment for 6 year old Nora
30 September 2019 - Canterbury parents Elyse and Rohan Guise were told their daughter's cancer was terminal, then their Christchurch ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2019
Radio personality Michael Kooge says he's being 'left to die' as he can't afford cancer treatment
30 September 2019 - An Auckland radio personality suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer says he and many ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2019
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 October 2019
1 October 2019 - The October 2019 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2019
PHARMAC's reduced funding for epilepsy drug raises concerns over driving, seizures
30 September 2019 - PHARMAC will stop funding two brands of a particular epilepsy drug from Tuesday, meaning patients have ...