Disease index

migraine prophylaxis

Neurology · 2006–2007

3decisions
1medicine
0carried consumer input
0individual submissions

Every decision here pre-dates the consumer comments facility, so no input would be recorded either way.

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
topiramate Prophylaxis of migraine in adults who have experienced an average of three or more migraines per month over at least six months and who have contraindication… Mar 2007 Recommended with restriction no section in document
topiramate Prophylaxis of migraine in adults experiencing an average of three or more migraines per month who have failed or are unable to tolerate beta-blockers and… Jul 2006 Not recommended no section in document
topiramate Prophylaxis of migraine in adults experiencing three or more migraines per month who have failed or are unable to tolerate beta-blockers and pizotifen. Jul 2006 Not recommended no section in document

What the PBS pays

$4M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 228,334 services.

This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.

MedicineGovernment benefit
topiramate $4.1M

Registered, not subsidised

Medicines on the ARTG for this condition with no PBAC record at all. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions: a medicine can be legally available in Australia and never have been put to the committee.

MedicineOn the ARTG sinceRegistrations
pizotifen malateSANDOMIGRAN pizotifen 0.5mg (as malate) tablet bottle 1999 1

The ARTG export holds current registrations only, so the year is the earliest entry still on the register rather than a first-registration date. The condition here comes from the registered label, which is usually broader than the population a sponsor asks to have subsidised.

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 0 of 0 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.