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New anniversary price reductions and Ministerial discretion guidance material available
20 April 2018 - Guidance material on new anniversary price reductions and Ministerial discretion arrangements, that were signed into law on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2018
Government subsidises two $5000/month breast cancer drugs
21 April 2018 - Women fighting breast cancer will no longer face treatment bills in the tens of thousands of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Apr 2018
Universal pharmacare the right prescription for Canada
19 April 2018 - A Commons committee is supporting the full funding of a national drug plan, a sign that the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Apr 2018
Four Canadian provinces add Erelzi (etanercept) to provincial drug plans for the treatment of multiple inflammatory diseases
19 April 2018 - Erelzi has been added to drug formularies in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Newfoundland based on specific criteria ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Apr 2018
Final NHS nod for Roche’s RoActemra
19 April 2018 - Roche/Chugai’s RoActemra should be routinely offered throughout the NHS to adults with giant cell arteritis within ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Apr 2018
Deputy Ministers call out patient engagement as key to transforming health care
17 April 2018 - The 2018 CADTH Symposium officially kicked off in Halifax with a panel of senior healthy policy ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Apr 2018
Canada moves one step closer to universal pharmacare
18 April 2018 - Canada’s unions are celebrating today’s announcement by the Standing Committee on Health that recommends a single-payer, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Apr 2018
The use of MCDA in HTA: great potential, but more effort needed
18 April 2018 - The potential for multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to support health technology assessment (HTA) has been much discussed, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Apr 2018
Terminally ill dad saves more than $200k bringing in cancer drugs from India
17 April 2018 - A Kiwi dad who's dying of lung cancer has been bypassing the PHARMAC system to get ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Apr 2018
2018 influenza vaccines now available
18 April 2018 - More than 4.5 million Australians who are most at risk of getting sick during this year’s flu ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Apr 2018
CADTH to review CAR T-cell therapies
17 April 2018 - Since the FDA approved the first gene therapy in 2017, Canadian patients, health care providers, and decision-makers ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Apr 2018
Listing of life-saving cancer medicine to save patients more than $200,000
16 April 2018 - The Turnbull Government will drastically reduce the cost of a life-saving new medicine, which uses a patient’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Apr 2018
Governments must speed up access to approved cancer drugs
16 April 2018 - Strides in cancer research have increased survival rates and provided a better quality of life for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2018
Private health care in Australia: health policy’s wicked problem
16 April 2018 - The anguish expressed by many of the 1,200 respondents to the Consumers Health Forum’s Out of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2018
CADTH 2018-2021 strategic plan
16 April 2018 - Dr. Brian O’Rourke, CADTH President and CEO, has released the CADTH 2018-2021 Strategic Plan. ...