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PHARMAC defends position not to fund bowel cancer drug
14 September 2018 - PHARMAC is defending its position to not fund a drug recommended to patients with late-stage bowel cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Sep 2018
Dying cancer patients refused PHARMAC funding
13 September 2018 - Dying patients who suffer a rare reaction to chemotherapy are having to pay for their own ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Aug 2018
Expensive life-prolonging drug not an option for many women
30 August 2018 - Wiki Mulholland has the toughest of balancing acts – between staying alive and draining her family ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Aug 2018
Woman's desperate plea to PHARMAC to fund $6,000/month cancer drug
31 august 2018 - A New Zealand woman is pleading with pharmaceutical giant PHARMAC and MPs to fund an expensive ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Aug 2018
Battling cancer and fighting for funding
28 August 2018 - Dr Rosalie Stephens turns up to work these days with hope. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2018
Breast cancer sufferer calls for life-saving Kadcyla drug to be publicly funded
13 August 2018 - A cancer sufferer is calling for PHARMAC to fund a potentially life-saving drug. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2018
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 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 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 ...