National Centre For Pharmacoeconomics

The makers of a life-saving new cancer drug are to provide it on a compassionate basis to Irish patients for another month. Pharmaceutical giant Bris(...)

Difficult decisions about funding new developments in healthcare have always existed. Medical breakthroughs are welcome and will continue to pose fund(...)

Every three weeks Kay Barry travels from her home in Limerick to the cancer centre in Cork University Hospital, where she spends half an hour receivin(...)

For most parents, the heel prick test is one of those forgettable, standard procedures that their newborn baby goes through during the early, hazy day(...)

A new €160,000 drug that cystic fibrosis campaigners have described as a “game changer” is likely to be made available to those patients who will bene(...)

Decisions on the reimbursement of the cost of medicines were neither political nor ministerial, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said. He said they were mad(...)

An Irish woman suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF) has called on the HSE and the Government to fund the Orkambi drug which is used to treat the underl(...)

The Health Service Executive is considering a new scheme of incentives to GPs to encourage more cost-efficient prescribing of drugs. The HSE has t(...)

The Health Service Executive has agreed to fund on a limited basis the cost of a drug that helps people with multiple sclerosis to walk. The announcem(...)

Upcycling has gradually been taking over the fashion world. Now the pharmaceutical industry seems to be doing the same: taking an old item and putting(...)