Tag: Media

Multiple Sclerosis New Zealand Wins Major International Award

Media release: Tuesday May 30th 2023 The health charity advocating for the more than 4100 New Zealanders living with multiple sclerosis (MS) has won a prestigious international award recognising its tireless eight year battle to have Pharmac widen access to vital drug treatments – with people now able to start their treatments earlier, stay on […]

MS in the media: Nurse, Zazi, thought her MS symptoms were due to new job stress

An Auckland nurse was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis after first believing her symptoms were due to career stress. Zazi Gohar, 26, from West Auckland’s Te Atatū, learned she had MS, an often disabling disease of the central nervous system, in 2020 after her legs and hands became completely numb. Gohar said she’d been experiencing symptoms of MS since she was […]

aHSCT in the news: We’re fed up waiting for it to be made available here

A 10,000-strong petition asking Health New Zealand to extend “game-changing” stem cell treatment to multiple sclerosis (MS) patients is set to be delivered to Parliament. The petition started by Aucklander Joan Perry​, whose daughter Anne Besley​ has MS, calls for autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (aHSCT) to be made available for selected patients in New Zealand. Doctors […]

aHSCT in the media – Bronwyn Hutchinson interview on Today FM

Listen how Bronwyn struggled with every day life, couldn’t look after her children or hold a book, and how it led her to raise $100,000 and head to Mexico for life changing treatment, aHSCT. The interview was aired this morning (26/07/22) on Today FM and you can listen here: https://www.todayfm.co.nz/home/podcasts/tova-catchup-podcast—today-fm.html Fast forward to 20.11 to […]

Media Release: Government urged to “get a move on” and approve cost-effective, proven, stem cell treatment for Multiple Sclerosis

Tuesday 26th July 2022 A private petition is being delivered to the steps of parliament at lunchtime today – calling for the government to green-light a treatment, readily available overseas, which is delivering remarkable improvements to the health of many patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) worldwide.The petition is the work of patients and their families, […]

Media Release: The Economic Burden Report

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Information Release: 8th June 2022 NZIER report: Earlier intervention of Multiple Sclerosis will benefit people with MS and the New Zealand economy A recently released report by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), commissioned by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of New Zealand (MSNZ) shows that earlier intervention of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) will not […]

More funded medicines for New Zealanders?

Media article: 19 May 2022 Pharmac welcomes the $191 million increase to its pharmaceutical budget over the next two years. It is already working its way through the medicines options for investment (OFI) list, looking at what agreements it can now make with pharmaceutical suppliers. “This budget increase is the biggest we’ve had since we […]