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Calls for price cuts on cancer meds

If the government says cancer drugs aren't worth the cost, then what? Ask drugmakers to cut their prices. After the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence rejected four Read more...
Tags: drug prices   cancer drugs   NICE  

NICE rejects four cancer meds

The debate over costly oncology meds rages on in the U.K. as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence rejected four high-tech drugs for advanced kidney cancer treatment: Read more...
Tags: Torisel   Nexavar   Avastin   Sutent   cancer drugs   NICE  

NICE wants to limit anti-TNF use

Hear those cries of protest? They're coming from the U.K., whose National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued guidelines today that would limit patients' access to high-tech Read more...

U.K. aims for quicker adoption of new meds

Last week, the news from the U.K. was all about restrictions, as the National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence refused to pay for Roche's cancer treatment Avastin. This week, the British Read more...
Tags: United Kingdom   NICE  

More NICE debate over cancer meds

It's not just Roche that refused to fork over cost-effectiveness info on its cancer med to the U.K.'s National Institution for Clinical Health and Excellence. So, too, has Merck Serono. Yesterday, Read more...

Roche, NICE in Avastin data standoff

It's another blow for Roche's Avastin the U.K. The National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence shot down the high-tech cancer med as a first-line treatment for lung and breast cancer, Read more...
Tags: Avastin   NICE   Roche  

UK's NICE to Sanofi’s obesity drug

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) gave a favorable nod to Sanofi's obesity drug, Acomplia, giving a boost to the company despite earlier challenges the drug faced. Read more...
Tags: NICE   Acomplia   Sanofi-Aventis  

U.K. aims to put 1.5M on preventive statins

New U.K. guidelines for heart-attack prevention could be a major windfall for statin-makers. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence wants docs to search their patient rolls for

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Tags: Statins   Zocor   Simvastatin   NICE  

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