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Morneau says Ottawa will need to work with provinces on issues like universal pharmacare
19 January 2020 - Finance Minister Bill Morneau said that the federal government will often need to work together with provinces ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jan 2020
Amazon just filed a bunch of international trademarks for ‘Amazon Pharmacy’
21 January 2020 - Amazon bought an Internet pharmacy business called PillPack in 2018. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jan 2020
Is innovation causing accessibility, timing issues for private drug plans?
17 January 2020 - Pharmaceutical companies and private payers can interact in different ways to ensure the right drugs are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2020
Why Canada won't end up as the drugstore to the U.S.
16 January 2020 - Although in theory the new U.S. import proposals could significantly affect Canadians and their drug supplies, their ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jan 2020
B.C. funding decision on pricey drug leaves teen with rare disease facing 'scary' future
13 January 2020 - Miles Ambridge just misses cut-off age to access Spinraza, a potentially life-changing treatment. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jan 2020
Health insurance industry pooling mechanism makes high cost drugs accessible for record number of Canadians
14 January 2020 - The catastrophic expense of high cost drugs have been made affordable for a record number of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
Alignment of terminology
9 January 2020 - CADTH is aligning the terminology in the single drug review processes as follows: ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2020
New CADTH process for cell and gene therapies
9 January 2020 - CADTH has undertaken an internal review of our processes for drugs and devices, and established a revised ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2020
Canadian parents of babies with rare deadly disease look to Novartis treatment lottery
5 January 2020 - Canadian babies with a rare and often fatal muscle-wasting disease may soon have access to a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2020
Toronto parents of baby needing $2.8 million drug turn to Swiss drug maker's dose lottery as a last resort
31 December 2019 - Critics call on Ottawa to improve access to expensive drugs that treat rare diseases. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Dec 2019
'We can't wait': life-saving cystic fibrosis drugs hard to access, advocates say
22 December 2019 - 'There's just not a fair assessment of these drugs and therefore, Canadians can't get them'. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2019
Pickering mother with cystic fibrosis pleads for ‘miracle drug’ to come to Canada
16 December 2019 - A Pickering mother fighting cystic fibrosis is calling for all levels of government and stakeholders to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Dec 2019
Alberta changes coverage of biologic drugs for people with Crohn's, diabetes, arthritis
12 December 2019 - The provincial government says will free up hundreds of millions of dollars in health funding during the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2019
Canadian study shows substantial savings possible with use of biosimilar filgrastim
12 December 2019 - During this week’s annual meeting of American Society of Hematology, researchers from Canada reported that using biosimilar ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2019
Alberta will force patients to switch from biologics to cheaper biosimilar medications
12 December 2019 - Alberta will force 26,000 patients on government-sponsored drug plans to switch from expensive drugs that are known ...