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Budget 2024: No funding for promised cancer drugs disappoints patient
National campaigned on funding 13 cancer treatments available in Australia.
National campaigned on funding 13 cancer treatments available in Australia.
OPINION: The Budget will be a tally of promises kept and broken.
Todd Stephenson has links with two of the three companies Seymour met.
Act MP Todd Stephenson's long links with pharma industry - and plans to shake up Pharmac.
Govt will lower the bowel cancer screening age to 55.
Higher prescription rates reflected greater recognition of ADHD, the study's author said.
The Government will boost Pharmac’s budget by more than $1.7 billion over the next four years. Video / NZ Herald
There had been speculation the former minister was planning to run for Auckland Mayor.
Overall, more than 800 patients would benefit, Pharmac said.
OPINION: Medsafe must first approve off-label medicines, insurers say.
The legislation will allow cold and flu medicines to be available over the counter.
OPINION: It’s time for New Zealand to prioritise the health of its youngest population.
OPINION: Pharmac has announced flu vaccines will no longer be free for children.
A Medsafe technicality is seeing people miss out on desperately-needed funds.
Loss-making firm failed to raise much-needed funds.
OPINION: The Princess of Wales has reassured the world 'I am going to be okay'.
Seymour wants investigation of possible cost-sharing between Pharmac and patients.
OPINION: What sort of country are we discussing medical access for cancer patients?
He is paying $1700 every eight weeks for unfunded Keytruda treatments.
The scheme won't cover all multiple myeloma patients. Details are due within a month.
OPINION: Kiwis will see new cancer drugs at a faster rate.
Dr Logan McLennan's former patients are stepping forward to help the beloved GP.
Lady Tureiti Moxon says the decision is ‘another anti-Maōri stance’.
He just played to a huge Auckland crowd, now he's shifting the focus to something else.
New Zealand badly lags behind other developed countries for funded myeloma drugs.
A desperate Auckland family is collecting cans to try fund blood cancer medication.
Sarah Barr's own mum died of melanoma - and she won't allow that to happen to her kids.
Northlander Cherie Coker will do anything to spend more time with her young children.
A gloomy economic outlook - with a silver lining on inflation.
Hamilton woman Lisa Martin was among those whose aggressive cancer was eliminated.