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By: Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor, The Independent
Friday, 8 August 2008
“Why are we asking this now?
Cancer charities, kidney specialists and campaigners were outraged yesterday when the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice), announced that it had rejected four new drugs for advanced kidney cancer as too [...]
Archive for the ‘NICE’ Category
Can it ever be right for the NHS to reject drugs that could extend life?
Posted in Editor, NICE, Politics, Science, cancer, chronic disease, health, life, news on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Call for shake-up in how NICE reviews drug cost effectiveness
Posted in Clinical review, NICE, bmj, chronic disease, health, news on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News: Andrew Cole – BMJ, 11 January 2008
The House of Commons health select committee has called for a major shake-up in the way the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) assesses new treatments.
ME: a QUICK guideline for busy GP’s
Posted in CFS/ME, ME, NICE, Politics, bmj, chronic disease, diagnosis, health on November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Many GP’s and other healthcare professionals don’t know much about ME. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis [WHO ICD-10:G93.3])
They think it is the same as tiredness and that impression is further reinforced by the recent NICE guidelines that proclaim that tiredness and a sore throat or headache equals ME. Nothing is further from the truth. Here is a quick guideline for [...]
ANAESTHETISTS GUIDELINES FOR MANAGING VERY OBESE PATIENTS
Posted in NICE, RISKS, bmj, chronic disease, health, life on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
BMJ 2007;335:275 (11 August).
Anaesthetists get new guidelines for morbidly obese patients
BY: Toby Reynolds
The rising number of morbidly obese people in the UK population has prompted anaesthetists to write new guidelines for managing these higher risk patients, emphasising the need for training and suitable equipment.
In England nearly 3% of women and 1% of men are [...]
ALZHEIMER AND DONEPEZIL
Posted in ALZHEIMER, NICE, bmj, chronic disease, health on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Janice Hopkins Tanne; BMJ 2007;335:226 (4 August).
Patients with severe Alzheimer’s disease who are living at home with family care givers and are treated with donepezil stabilise or decline more slowly than patients given placebo, according to a multinational, randomised, placebo controlled trial published in Neurology (2007;69:459-69).
North American researchers were suspicious of the decision by the UK [...]
BREAST CANCER: How much will Herceptin really cost?
Posted in NICE, bmj, cancer, chronic disease, health, news on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
New guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence recommends Herceptin in early breast cancer, but it provides no additional funding or any suggestion of which services to cut. This leaves medical staff with difficult decisions to make.
The media have made little mention of the restricted categories of patients for whom Herceptin may [...]
