PBS listings
Tariffs threaten PBS listings: Breast Cancer Network Australia
Patients needing access to high-cost medicines are being abandoned as Trump’s tariffs prompt “pharmaceutical standoff”, advocacy group warns Concerns are being raised that patients are being left to deteriorate as talks to list …
Oral versions of GLP-1s on the horizon
With benefits beyond glucose control for the “new kid on the block” in diabetes management, leading researcher foreshadows oral versions with less side effects New versions of GLP-1 receptor agonists …
‘Disconnect’ between PBS listings, guidelines
PBAC and experts debate PBS restrictions following its rejection for listing of new therapy The PBAC and other experts have investigated “several disconnections” in currently available medicines for pulmonary arterial …
Supporting more contraceptive options for women
PBAC recommends new PBS listings for oral contraception plus treatment of atopic dermatitis and severe asthma in children The PBAC has recommended listing estetrol with drospirenone (Nextstellis) on the PBS …
Etanercept changes
From 1 November, authority requirements regarding etanercept for the treatment of children and adolescents with severe chronic plaque psoriasis will change The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee’s recommendations led to the changes, …
New listings
The Health Department has announced new PBS listings of treatments for COVID, paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria and acute myeloid leukaemia The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has welcomed the announcement that the …
Health Minister under fire over PBS listings
Greg Hunt criticised in mainstream media over medicines that have not been subsidised – but he emphasises the government cannot compel sponsors to list medicines on PBS “Tens of thousands …