Doctors Condemn Watchdog Verdict On Eyesight Drug
Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › July 06, 2007
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The opportunity to appeal against planned restrictions on a sight- saving drug ends today, as senior doctors condemn the decision of a Government watchdog.
A draft report by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) - the body that decides which treatments to make available on the NHS - says the new drug Lucentis should be used on only 20 per cent of patients who could benefit from it - and only when they're virtually blind in one eye.See the full content of this document
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Doctors Condemn Watchdog Verdict On Eyesight Drug
Now, that decision has been attacked by the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, a highly respec...
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