Ophthalmology

U.K. weighs drug rationing as NHS England's budget tightens: report Patients in the U.K. face yet another barrier to access as a tough budget situation has forced the country’s healthcare system to consider rationing costly drugs. Among them are medicines from Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Roche. Beginning in April, cancer patients and others could have to line up for medicines that cost NHS England more than £20 million per year, The Times reported. That’s even after those meds have been deemed cost-effective by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The move comes at a troublesome time at NHS, as its chief executive, Simon Stevens, said publ...