{"id":185534,"date":"2015-09-24T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=185534"},"modified":"2015-09-24T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:05:05","slug":"british-patients-denied-drugs-high-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/british-patients-denied-drugs-high-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"British patients being denied drugs because of high prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Cancer patients in the UK are being denied drugs because of unnecessarily exorbitant prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patients in the UK have been told &#8220;the NHS will not pay for two such drugs because they are not cost-effective and they have been dropped from\u00a0the list reimbursed by the government\u2019s special cancer drugs fund.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which will be presented at an international cancer conference this weekend, will fuel the growing controversy over the price of medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say, too many people assume that the high price of new medicines is non-negotiable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/09\/23\/430448\/UK-cancer-patients-drugs-Denied\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer patients in the UK are being denied drugs because of unnecessarily exorbitant prices. Patients in the UK have been told &#8220;the NHS will not pay for two such drugs because they are not cost-effective and they have been dropped from\u00a0the list reimbursed by the government\u2019s special cancer drugs fund.&#8221; The findings, which will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}