Lung cancer sufferers are to be given an expensive life-prolonging drug on the NHS under a deal with manufacturers to cut the medication's price.
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Showing posts with label Drug Therapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drug Therapy. Show all posts
Expensive lung cancer drug to be available on the NHS - The Telegraph 26th November 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Stop smoking drug concerns raised - BBC Health News 26th November 2008
It was launched as a wonder drug. A tablet to take the pain out of kicking the killer weed.
Since it appeared on the market two years ago in the UK, almost 400,000 prescriptions for Champix have been written.
Across the world, that figure is currently sitting at nine million.
Sleeping pills ‘double’ risk of having car crash the next day - Daily Mail 24th November 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Sleeping pills prescribed to hundreds of thousands of Britons could more than double their risk of road accidents, scientists have found.
Research showed that men and younger people are more likely to be involved in a car crash the day after taking the pills than women and the elderly.
New migraine treatment has fewer side effects - The Independent 25th November 2008
A new treatment for migraine that is as effective as existing drugs but with fewer side effects will bring fresh hope to millions of sufferers, scientists said yesterday.
Improved understanding of the mechanism that causes the brain to over-react to stimuli has led to the development of a drug that works in a different way from existing treatments.
Tan jabs ‘dice with death’ - Liverpool Echo 24th November 2008
LIVERPOOL’s health experts today said anyone injecting themselves with an unlicensed tanning drug is dicing with death.
Medical director for Liverpool Primary Care Trust’s provider services Dr Jim O’Connor said he would be “horrified” if any of his children wanted to inject themselves with tanning hormone Melanotan.
Widow exposes second drug trial death - The Sunday Times 23rd November 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
A volunteer testing a new treatment died after doctors ‘missed’ a side effect, his wife tells our correspondent
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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'.
‘It isn’t easy to say no’ - BBC Health News 23rd November 2008
Imagine being one of the people who decides if a life-saving drug is too expensive for the public purse - when individual patients are desperate to get hold of the medicine.
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