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Australian PBS Adds Asbestos, Smoking-Cessation Drugs To Coverage (Australia)

This article was originally published in PharmAsia News

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Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme added Eli Lilly's Alimta (pemetrexed disodium) and Pfizer's Champix (Chantix) (veranicline tartrate) to its list of covered drugs. The addition of Alimta was notable because its coverage for asbestos-related mesothelioma was the subject of a large campaign by people with the disease to gain coverage. Champix is a smoking-cessation drug. (Click here for more

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