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PHARMAC to fund HRT info to doctors/patients
Monday, 2 August 2004, 11:24 am | PHARMAC
Doctors and patients are to be given better access to information on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). More >>
Campaign Has Killer In Its Sights
Tuesday, 29 June 2004, 11:22 am | PHARMAC
That’s the message of the PHARMAC-led One Heart Many Lives campaign that kicks off today in Rotorua. More >>
Campaign Pilots Successful
Thursday, 24 June 2004, 3:38 pm | PHARMAC
More men are taking positive steps to lower their risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke as a result of a PHARMAC-led campaign. More >>
Products provide treatments for glaucoma
Tuesday, 15 June 2004, 2:50 pm | PHARMAC
People suffering the progressive eye condition glaucoma now have more fully funded treatment options available, with two new products approved for funding by PHARMAC. More >>
New treatment funded for HIV/AIDS
Tuesday, 1 June 2004, 2:16 pm | PHARMAC
A PHARMAC funding decision is to give people with advanced HIV/AIDS access to a new fully-funded treatment. More >>
NZ plays its role in war against resistance
Wednesday, 26 May 2004, 11:55 am | PHARMAC
New Zealand is continuing to do its bit in the international fight against bacterial resistance, with the launch of PHARMAC’s Wise Use of Antibiotics Campaign today. More >>
Fewer New Zealanders taking antibiotics
Wednesday, 26 May 2004, 9:18 am | PHARMAC
Research shows that fewer New Zealanders are likely to reach for antibiotics to treat colds and flu, compared to numbers seen four years ago. More >>
Asthma drug doses make positive move
Friday, 14 May 2004, 9:54 am | PHARMAC
Prescribing data shows there has been a healthy change in the use of asthma preventers, in line with the aims of PHARMAC’s Responsible Use of Inhaled Corticosteroids campaign. More >>
Continued access to two cholesterol drugs
Tuesday, 11 May 2004, 4:12 pm | PHARMAC
PHARMAC is responding to the advice of expert clinicians in providing people with continued fully subsidised access two cholesterol-lowering statins drugs. More >>
New fully funded treatment for alcohol addiction
Monday, 10 May 2004, 12:09 am | PHARMAC
Government drug-funding agency PHARMAC has agreed to provide subsidy for naltrexone (ReVia) from 1 June 2004. More >>
PHARMAC commits further $39 mn to NZers’ health
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 3:11 pm | PHARMAC
More than 14,000 New Zealanders are set to benefit from recent decisions to invest more in medicines by Government drug-funding agency PHARMAC. More >>
Green Prescriptions an effective health investment
Thursday, 5 February 2004, 4:14 pm | PHARMAC
Green Prescriptions, a SPARC (Sport & Recreation New Zealand) and General Practice programme that helps doctors encourage people to become more physically active, is highly cost effective according to new research released today. More >>
New treatment for Hepatitis C patients
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 12:55 am | PHARMAC
A new and more effective combination treatment for people with Hepatitis C is to be funded by Government drug-buying agency PHARMAC. More >>
Tender expected to deliver further health savings
Tuesday, 6 January 2004, 6:22 pm | PHARMAC
Further savings and ensured supply of medicines are expected to result from the 2003-04 PHARMAC tender, which has been issued to pharmaceutical suppliers. More >>
Agreement offers relief children with arthritis
Monday, 22 December 2003, 9:04 am | PHARMAC
Children with arthritis will have access to a new fully-subsidised treatment from 1 February 2004. More >>
New Anti-Depressant Drug Funded
Wednesday, 10 December 2003, 2:39 pm | PHARMAC
A new treatment for depression will be funded from 1 January 2004 following an agreement between PHARMAC and pharmaceutical company Wyeth (NZ) Ltd. More >>
Wellington Professor appointed to chair PTAC
Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 2:34 pm | PHARMAC
Wellington-based physician and clinical pharmacologist Professor Carl Burgess has been appointed to chair the Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee (PTAC). More >>
PHARMAC welcomes new Board appointment
Tuesday, 2 December 2003, 2:32 pm | PHARMAC
PHARMAC Board chairman Richard Waddel has welcomed the appointment of Tauranga management consultant Adrienne von Tunzelmann to the Board of the Government drug-funding agency. More >>
Big jump in statins use but many not accessing
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 4:31 pm | PHARMAC
More people are getting the benefits of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs but prescribing figures could be higher yet, says PHARMAC Medical Director Dr Peter Moodie. More >>
PHARMAC predicts continuing HRT prescribing drop
Wednesday, 26 November 2003, 2:25 pm | PHARMAC
Even fewer New Zealand women are likely to opt for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) despite the already large drop-off in use, predicts drug funding agency PHARMAC. More >>
