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New drug rules help terminally ill
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January 4, 2009, Sunday
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BRITAIN'S health care cost-effectiveness watchdog has announced new rules for the approval of drugs that could give British people with terminal illnesses longer to live. A cancer support group said 10,000 patients a year could benefit from the rule change.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said on Friday the new guidelines would ensure that its independent advisory bodies fully considered all benefits when making recommendations on treatments that extend the life of patients who don't have long to live.
NICE decides which treatments are made available under Britain's state-funded National Health Service.
The new rules will give terminally ill patients access to treatments that, although shown to extend patients' lives, would normally be considered by NICE to be too expensive.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said on Friday the new guidelines would ensure that its independent advisory bodies fully considered all benefits when making recommendations on treatments that extend the life of patients who don't have long to live.
NICE decides which treatments are made available under Britain's state-funded National Health Service.
The new rules will give terminally ill patients access to treatments that, although shown to extend patients' lives, would normally be considered by NICE to be too expensive.
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