Not playing NICE: British government-run health system to refuse some pain therapy
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2009
From London’s The Daily Telegraph:
The Government’s drug rationing watchdog says “therapeutic” injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known. Instead the National Institute [...]
