Cost regulators for the NHS in England and Wales are backing routine use of Allergan’s Ozurdex and AbbVie’s Humira to treat non-infectious posterior uveitis, a form of preventable vision loss.
Patients in England and Wales with the lung scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis will have to wait until their disease has worsened before getting routine NHS access to Roche’s Esbriet.