{"id":668307,"date":"2026-05-13T13:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668307\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:48:08","slug":"health-panel-approves-coverage-for-ips-cell-derived-parkinsons-disease-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668307\/","title":{"rendered":"Health panel approves coverage for iPS cell-derived Parkinson\u2019s disease treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An advisory panel to the health minister on Wednesday approved Sumitomo Pharma\u2019s Parkinson\u2019s disease treatment Amchepry, which costs \u00a555.3 million ($350,600) per patient, to be covered under the national healthcare program.<\/p>\n<p>The approval marks the first commercialized medical product in the world derived from iPS cells, which are created by reprogramming adult cells such as blood or skin cells into a versatile state capable of developing into different tissue types.<\/p>\n<p>Insurance coverage will begin May 20, with treatment expected to be available this fall, according to media reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An advisory panel to the health minister on Wednesday approved Sumitomo Pharma\u2019s Parkinson\u2019s disease treatment Amchepry, which costs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,1730,137,500,1679,196176,229220],"class_list":["post-668307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-medicine","tag-mhlw","tag-parkinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}