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# Good News of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/good-news-of-the-day-2/
- Published: 2022-12-05T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-05T04:59:39.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Health, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

> A Kiwi living with cystic fibrosis can’t wait to “see what it feels like to breathe through clear lungs” after Pharmac announced it would fully fund what is touted as a miracle drug.   
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> Trikafta, supplied by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, will be funded for eligible cystic fibrosispatients aged six years old and above from April 1, 2023\.   
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> Twins Alex and Lizzie McKay both have cystic fibrosis. Lizzie works with Cystic Fibrosis New Zealand, and she was able to share the news with her brother on Sunday.   
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> “I don’t really have words, the delivery of that news will stay with us for the rest of our lives,” she told AM.   
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> “It’s been such an incredible few days.”  
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