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Friday, 17 July 2026
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Health Minister Mark Butler has put out a fire with a decision to keep MS drugs on the PBS but there's already another patient furore brewing over access to a different life-changing treatment.
The pressure on the Commonwealth to fund a broad listing for Keytruda is ratcheting up, with The Australian newspaper publishing an article as part of its 'Medicine Wars' series focusing on the lag in listing after a recommendation was made.

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