NICE reviews guidance to ensure ovarian cancer patients benefit from the best treatments

Five ovarian cancer treatments are being reviewed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to ensure the ...

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Aflibercept in macular oedema: added benefit not proven

For the third time in one year, the German IQWiG has dealt with the drug aflibercept. In an early benefit assessment ...
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Agenda for 19 November 2014 Transparency Commission meeting

The agenda for the 19 November 2014 Transparency Commission meeting is now available.  The Commission will consider the following medicines: ...

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New breast & lung cancer drugs available from today

Breast and lung cancer patients will have affordable access to life-changing medicines that normally cost up to $80,000 for treatment ...

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Tecfidera, a first-line oral treatment for multiple sclerosis, reimbursed in Alberta

Biogen Idec Canada announced today that Alberta Health will now reimburse Tecfidera (dimethyl fumarate) through the Alberta Drug Benefit List (DBL). Tecfidera is ...

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Insulin degludec: No hint of added benefit in children and adolescents

Insulin degludec (trade name: Tresiba) has been approved since January 2015 for adolescents and children from the age of one ...

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UK doctors urge use of Roche's Avastin as cheap eye drug

24 February 2015 - British doctors called on Tuesday for Roche's cancer drug Avastin to be made routinely available as a ...

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Selincro receives positive draft guidance from UK's NICE

Biotie Therapies (Biotie) announces that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the United Kingdom's health technology assessment ...

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Rare Cancer Australia report: a deadly discrepancy in cancer care

The flawed "nineteenth century" Australian health system is neglecting one third of Australians cancer patients. ...

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NICE proposes green light for the use of Iluvien in people with diabetes in final draft guidance

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The just price of cancer drugs and the growing cost of cancer care: oncologists need to be part of the solution

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Agenda for 7 January 2015 Transparency Committee meeting

The agenda for the 7 January 2015 Transparency Commission meeting is now available. The Commission will consider the following medicines: ...

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Simeprevir in hepatitis C: additional benefit in certain patients

Simprevir (trade name Olysio) has been available since May 2014 for the treatment of adults with chronic hepatitis C infection. The Institute for Quality and ...

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NICE recommends infliximab biosimilars ahead of Remicade

NICE is recommending two new biosimilar versions of one of the world's biggest selling drugs and says that these new ...

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The listing of Soliris (eculizumab) on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme or Life Saving Drugs Programme for the treatment of patients with atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (aHUS)

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