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RSS FeedPosted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2018
Saving Sarah: cop starting cancer treatment next month after $80k in donations
29 May 2018 - Thanks to generous Kiwis donating more than $80,000, West Auckland detective Sarah Cato will start a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 May 2018
Rationing medicines by stealth with Government budget announcement
17 May 2018 - Big expectations from the Government today as it increases the pressure on PHARMAC to perform with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 May 2018
Budget 2018: PHARMAC to buy all medicines for DHBs
17 May 2018 - People who need expensive PHARMAC funded drugs can access them regardless of their DHB's ability to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 May 2018
Proposal to widen access and change the funded enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease
17 May 2018 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on proposed changes to the funding of enzyme replacement therapy used in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 May 2018
PHARMAC budget 2018/19
17 May 2018 - PHARMAC is pleased that the Government has announced an uplift in PHARMAC’s funding. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2018
President Donald Trump wants to build a drug cartel – and wants New Zealand to pay for it
13 May 2018 - Accusing other countries of "freeloading", US President Donald Trump has announced plans to make countries like ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2018
Jacinda Ardern: PHARMAC will be protected in trade deals after Trump threats
12 May 2018 - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has assured New Zealanders that PHARMAC will be protected in future trade ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2018
Decision to widen access and change the funded brand of tenofovir disoproxil and entecavir
14 May 2018 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce decisions to approve agreements with Teva Pharma New Zealand Limited and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 May 2018
Can Donald Trump really change the cost of New Zealand drugs?
13 May 2018 - In a speech announcing "the most sweeping action in history to lower prices for prescription drugs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 May 2018
Decision to fund mercaptopurine oral suspension
10 May 2018 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce the approval of an agreement with Link Pharmaceuticals Limited for the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2018
The Kiwi patients that New Zealand's health system won't help
10 May 2018 - Freda Evans was blocked by security before she could get to the then Prime Minister, John ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2018
Thousands of New Zealanders will benefit from advances in treatment
10 May 2018 - Thousands of New Zealanders will benefit from advances in treatment as a result of two PHARMAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 May 2018
Notification of delay of decision on denosumab funding proposal
8 May 2018 - PHARMAC would like to advise all interested parties that there will be a delay in the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 May 2018
Reality TV star John 'Cocksy' Cocks' brave battle with terminal cancer
5 May 2018 - Cocksy had radiation for the last time in early January but can't have more as the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2018
Decision to fund aflibercept and rivaroxaban
3 May 2018 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce the approval of an agreement with Bayer New Zealand Limited for ...