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Emerging technology which aims to improve muscle movement is NICE’s 100th medtech innovation briefing
28 March 2017 - NICE’s advice series on new or novel healthcare technology reaches a milestone. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Mar 2017
AIA NZ shakes up NZ’s insurance market with bolt-on cancer product
28 March 2017 - For the first time in New Zealand, families will be able to access the latest in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2017
Should we pay more to treat rare diseases?
22 March 2017 - The UK’s public health watchdog is pressing ahead with plans to introduce a “dynamic upper limit” ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2017
New budget test puts UK on front line in global drug price fight
27 March 2017 - Can society afford modern medicines? It's a question facing governments worldwide and nowhere more so than ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2017
Fewer Australians are taking up health insurance each year, new data shows
27 March 2017 - After 10 years of enduring health insurance premium price hikes, the Hannah family of Elermore Vale ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2017
CADTH recommends Teva's Cinqair
22 March 2017 - Recommendation states price needs to be reduced by 90%. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2017
Re-thinking ‘The different perspectives that can be used when eliciting preferences in health’
21 March 2017 - The 2003 Health Economics paper by Dolan, Olsen, Menzel and Richardson on ‘An inquiry into the different ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2017
Federal Court of Australia dismisses preliminary discovery application regarding biosimilar suspected of infringing manufacturing process patents
26 March 2017 - In the recent decision of Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals v Samsung Bioepis, Justice Stephen Burley of the Federal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2017
Mood Disorders Society of Canada urges action on improving Canadians' access to life-saving medications
24 March 2017 - Mood Disorders Society of Canada today released a groundbreaking brief recommending action to improve Canadians' access ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2017
Federal Government announce 1100 medicines to have prices cut including rosuvastatin
25 March 2017 - Sick Australians will save $500 million over four years and up to $200 a year each ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2017
Rare cancer drug added to PBS
25 March 2017 - A drug used to treat a rare form of cancer now widely available through the national ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2017
Cost effective but unaffordable: an emerging challenge for health systems
23 March 2017 - New “budget impact test” is an unpopular and flawed attempt to solve a fundamentally political problem ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2017
NICE plays key role in European project to help give better care to patients with blood cancers
23 March 2017 - NICE will help improve care for people with blood cancers through a pioneering new partnership. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2017
Bill shock: couple faces $7000 health insurance price rise
25 March 2017 - When NSW couple Edna and Bill Williams were told how much they'd be expected to pay ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2017
Hope of B.C. coverage for life-saving cystic fibrosis drug dashed
23 March 2017 - 'It's about dollars,' says father of 16-year-old who claims son's life was changed by access to the ...