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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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2019
Seizures, driving stand-downs as PHARMAC pulls epilepsy drug funding
30 September 2019 - People with epilepsy say their lives are being turned upside down by seizures after the government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2019
Advocates frustrated after PHARMAC stops funding two epilepsy drugs
29 September 2019 - From Tuesday, PHARMAC will stop funding two drugs affecting thousands of people with epilepsy. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Sep 2019
PHARMAC poised to fund long-acting contraceptive Mirena
27 September 2019 - It might have cost the equivalent of 20 tubs of baby formula but for new mum ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2019
PHARMAC may have to compete for measles vaccine
17 September 2019 - PHARMAC is looking at whether it can order more measles vaccine in case the latest batch runs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Sep 2019
Taranaki man fearful drug funding change will bring back a life of seizures
13 September 2019 - For three years now a normal life has cost Nick Coulton $10 every three months. From ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2019
Kiwi cancer survival rates improving at slower rate than comparable countries, study shows
12 September 2019 - New Zealand is near the bottom for cancer survival compared to six other countries with similar ...