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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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2018
Duncan Garner's desperate plea to Jacinda Ardern over cancer funding
7 August 2018 - "There are people dying, mums and dads and brothers and sisters." ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2018
Supply of anti-retroviral treatments
6 August 2018 - PHARMAC invites tenders for the supply of certain antiretroviral treatments to DHB hospitals and to community pharmacies ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Aug 2018
Visiting patient advocates say New Zealand isn’t treating its cancer patients fairly
3 August 2018 - One of Australia’s top oncologists, Professor John Zalcberg, will be in New Zealand next week highlighting ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2018
Free access plan for 'revolutionary' drug that could eliminate Hepatitis C by 2030
1 August 2018 - What has been called a "revolutionary" hepatitis C drug could soon be available free-of-charge to all ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2018
Steve Maharey appointed as PHARMAC chairman
1 August 2018 - A former Labour cabinet minister has been installed as the chairman of the drug-buying agency PHARMAC, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2018
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 August 2018 update
1 August 2018 - The August 2018 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jul 2018
Julia McNicol doesn't have enough cancer to get the drugs she needs to fight it
30 July 2018 - Julia McNicol has a rare and aggressive skin cancer, but can't access public funding for the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jul 2018
PTAC defers submission for new indication for PD-L1 antagonist
27 July 2018 - This time its for patients with Hodgkin's disease. The reason; PTAC wants to see updated data ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jul 2018
PTAC recommends immune checkpoint inhibitors for certain patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma
25 July 2018 - The publication of the minutes of the May 2018 PTAC meeting reveals new outcomes. ...