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India grants patent for Sovaldi – Is the Indian Hepatitis C tourism over?

End of Hepatitis C Tourism? For more than a year, Hepatitis C patients who could not afford the high price tag of the novel Hepatitis C drugs in their respective countries, could go to India and buy the medicines they needed to get well for about $2,000. This window that cured thousands and thousands of […]

PBS Pricing – Take a deep breath….

So I guess like a lot of people I've been wondering how good a deal the PBS negotiated. Last week I heard that a major public hospital had ordered 10 lots for $66,000 but thought that must be wrong. Given the pharmacists have to order these medications I came up with the cunning plan of asking one. The […]

Drug Safety Update: Risks of severe bradycardia and heart block when taken with amiodarone

On the 20th May 2015 the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the UK issued a Drug Safety Update titled: Sofosbuvir with daclatasvir; sofosbuvir and ledipasvir: risks of severe bradycardia and heart block when taken with amiodarone. You will find a link to it at: https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/sofosbuvir-with-daclatasvir-sofosbuvir-and-ledipasvir-risks-of-severe-bradycardia-and-heart-block-when-taken-with-amiodarone

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