Without a subsidy, patients could pay $750 a year to treat the condition which has no cure and can last decades
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More than one million Australians living with endometriosis will have access to a treatment subsidised by the federal government for the first time in three decades.
The health minister, Mark Butler, announced on Sunday that a daily tablet will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
