What does PBS stand for?

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (Australia)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

In Australia, however, the national Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme does subsidize certain medicines, but the cost of filling a prescription varies widely, depending on the drug.

Communicating locally: there are very real local differences in ...

Examples include supporting Medicare Australia Online Services, in which viewers can view, update and request information held by Medicare Australia, and enhancing the delivery of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, whereby payments are made to pharmacists to subsidize certain essential medicines.

Australia: IBM Extends Infrastructure Services Relationship With ...

The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), one of the enduring legacies of the Labor social policy reforms of the 1940s, is administered by the Commonwealth Department of Health to allow 'equity of access' to necessary prescription drugs.

Big pharma--bullies in the PBS: Hans Lofgren shows how US ...

THE PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS SCHEME There is an assumption by some unthinking people that the large drug companies are concerned merely to set "fair" prices for their products.

The U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement

CMs are subsidised through the Australian government Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme b.

Complementary medicine

AUSTRALIANS love their Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

Affordable drugs? Forget it! It's not just poor countries that find ...

It is estimated that the cost to Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for these five drugs is $30-40 million annually.

GENEPHARM BEGINS REGISTRATION OF FIVE ANTI-CANCER DRUGS

1) The government also heavily subsidizes more than 1,350 prescription drugs under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

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