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Life-saving breast cancer drug now cheaper thanks to expansion of the PBS
1 July 2025 - A potentially life-saving treatment for early-stage breast cancer will become much more affordable for hundreds of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jul 2025
Adagrasib for adults with previously treated, advanced, KRAS G12C mutation positive non-small-cell lung cancer
2 July 2025 - NICE is unable to make a recommendation on the use of adagrasib (Krazati) for the second-line treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jul 2025
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 July 2025
1 July 2025 - The July 2025 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jul 2025
NICE welcomes the inclusion of measures for equal treatment of medicines and health technologies
1 July 2025 - The new approach will ensure that high impact devices, diagnostics and digital tools recommended by NICE, that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jul 2025
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 July 2025
1 July 2025 - The July 2025 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jun 2025
Pegzilarginase for the treatment of patients 2 years of age and older with arginase-1 deficiency
26 June 2025 - NICE has published additional draft guidance consultation on the use of pegzilarginase in the NHS in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jun 2025
Australians with cystic fibrosis benefit from life changing expanded listing
24 June 2025 - More Australians living with cystic fibrosis will have affordable access to a life changing treatment option ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jun 2025
‘Barriers lifted’: cystic fibrosis treatment reaches final waiting patients
23 June 2025 - Ex-Wallabies player Nathan Charles has lived with cystic fibrosis for decades. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jun 2025
‘The sky’s the limit’: how Australian scientists rewrote the cancer script
20 June 2025 - A major shift in cancer treatment will be publicly funded and is set to dramatically increase the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jun 2025
Recommendations made by the PBAC - May 2025
20 June 2025 - The recommendations from the May 2025 PBAC intracycle meeting are now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jun 2025
Final draft guidance finds benefits of two treatments for patients with Alzheimer’s disease remain too small to justify the additional cost to the NHS
19 June 2025 - The benefits from donanemab (Kisunla; Eli Lilly) and lecanemab (Leqembi; Eisai) - remain too small to justify ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jun 2025
Tislelizumab for the treatment of adults with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer after platinum-based chemotherapy
19 June 2025 - NICE is unable to make a recommendation on the use of tislelizumab (Tevimbra) for the treatment of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jun 2025
Atezolizumab for the adjuvant treatment of patients with resected non-small-cell lung cancer
19 June 2025 - NICE has published final evidence-based recommendations on the use of atezolizumab (Tecentriq) for the adjuvant treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2025
PHARMAC funding U turn for patients
16 June 2025 - Associate Health Minister David Seymour says the oestradiol patch funding decision is an example of PHARMAC’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2025
PHARMAC to fund two brands of oestradiol patches from 1 December 2025
16 June 2025 - PHARMAC will fund two brands of oestradiol patches – Estradot and Estradiol TDP Mylan – from ...