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NICE recommends five new therapies

27 January 2016 | By Victoria White

NICE has published its final recommendations on whether six different drug treatments should be routinely funded by the NHS...

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NICE recommends 7 DMARDs for severe rheumatoid arthritis

26 January 2016 | By Victoria White

NICE recommends the seven biological disease modifying drugs as options for treating severe rheumatoid arthritis which has not responded to intensive therapy with a combination of conventional DMARDs...

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NICE says ‘yes’ to Opdivo (nivolumab) in melanoma

22 January 2016 | By Victoria White

NICE recommends that nivolumab is made available on the NHS as a treatment option for patients with advanced (unresectable or metastatic) melanoma...

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NICE publishes new guideline to better tackle TB

13 January 2016 | By Victoria White

The new guidance combines clinical advice and public health guidance for the first time...

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NICE says ‘yes’ to Santen’s dry eye disease treatment, ciclosporin

16 December 2015 | By Victoria White

Ciclosporin (Ikervis) is a sterile, positively charged, oil-in water, unpreserved ophthalmic emulsion that contains ciclosporin (CsA)...

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NICE says ‘yes’ to heart failure drug sacubitril valsartan

11 December 2015 | By Victoria White

Sacubitril valsartan is an angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitor. Neprilysin inhibits the actions of peptides in dilating the blood vessels...

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NICE recommends enzalutamide; consults on abiraterone

11 December 2015 | By Victoria White

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published draft guidance on two prostate cancer treatments - enzalutamide and abiraterone...

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NICE says ‘no’ to asfotase alfa in draft guidance

3 December 2015 | By Victoria White

NICE has published draft guidance as part of its highly specialised technologies programme that does not recommend Alexion’s asfotase alfa for treating paediatric-onset hypophosphatasia...

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NICE draft guidance recommends elosulfase alfa for MPS IVa

23 November 2015 | By Victoria White

The positive draft guidance follows the development of a managed access scheme by BioMarin and NHS England...

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Cancer Drugs Fund public consultation launched

19 November 2015 | By Victoria White

The new Cancer Drugs Fund will become an instrument for the collection of important information on longer term benefits which may not be available at the time of licensing...

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NICE recommends Xofigo (radium-223) for prostate cancer

19 November 2015 | By Victoria White

NICE’s FAD coincides with a period of great uncertainty with the Cancer Drugs Fund deliberating again whether to remove radium-223 from the list...

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NICE says ‘no’ to Amgen’s Repatha in draft guidance

18 November 2015 | By Victoria White

The NICE Committee felt the question whether Repatha (evolocumab) would reduce angina, heart attacks and strokes remains unanswered...

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Kadcyla ‘price remains too high’, says NICE

17 November 2015 | By Victoria White

NICE has published final draft guidance not recommending the use of Kadcyla as a treatment for a type of advanced breast cancer because the price is too high...

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NICE recommends Ikervis in final draft guidance

4 November 2015 | By Victoria White

Ikervis has been recommended for the treatment of keratitis in adults with dry eye disease who have not responded to tear substitutes...

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NICE recommends tolvaptan for patients with ADPKD

28 October 2015 | By Victoria White

Tolavptan is the first-ever treatment shown to slow progression of the life-threatening condition...

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