NICE set to lift 'prescription of pain' limit on £100-a-week arthritis drugs - Daily Mail 24th November 2008

Thousands of arthritis sufferers can keep using a range of drugs after rationing watchdog Nice overturned its decision to ban them.

The ruling earlier this year, restricting access to the £100-a-week treatments, had been condemned by campaigners as a 'prescription for pain'.

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