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5 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
Mepolizumab is the first biologic treatment to target specific white blood cells called eosinophils, which are responsible for symptoms of severe asthma...
2 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
Ibrutinib had only previously been available through the CDF. Following a reduction in its price for the NHS, it is now recommended in further guidance...
21 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
FITs are considered to be accurate because unlike other tests, they use immunochemical detection methods that are specific to human haemoglobin...
21 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
A discount to the price of pertuzumab agreed with the company was an important factor in enabling NICE to overturn its earlier provisional decision...
17 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
More than 75% of treatments in the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) which have been reappraised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have received positive recommendations for routine use in the NHS. NICE has been reappraising cancer drugs which had not been recommended in previous NICE guidance…
14 November 2016 | By Norma McGough, Director of Policy, Research & Campaigns, Coeliac UK
Coeliac UK’s Director of Policy, Research & Campaigns, Norma McGough, welcomes NICE’s new quality standards on coeliac disease, which she believes will bring clarity and improvement to diagnosis screening and better access to long term treatment…
10 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
NICE recommends 2 cancer drugs for routine use on the NHS as part of its programme to appraise treatments that were available on the Cancer Drugs Fund...
7 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
NICE was reconsidering cetuximab as part of its programme to appraise drugs that are currently available on the Cancer Drugs Fund...
3 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
NICE has said eribulin, which is also called Halaven and made by Eisai, should be an option for people with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer...
21 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Nivolumab is an intravenous drug, a form of immunotherapy that works by harnessing the power of the patient’s own immune system to destroy the cancer cells...
19 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Coeliac UK welcomes NICE quality standards but is concerned that many CCG's in England will not reverse blanket bans on gluten-free prescribing...
17 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published draft guidance that does not recommend Janssen’s Imbruvica (ibrutinib) for treating some people with Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia – a rare type of slow growing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
17 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Proposed changes to the way NICE appraises new treatments could see patients benefiting from the most cost effective treatments nearly three months faster...
14 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
NICE’s appraisal committee concluded that nivolumab was not cost-effective for all patients in the treatment of non small-cell lung cancer...
11 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released draft guidance recommending Apremilast for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis in adults. This appraisal was a rapid review of the NICE technology appraisal guidance published in December 2015. It focused on cost-effectiveness analyses using a patient access scheme agreement, which provides apremilast at…
