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RSS FeedPosted 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 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 10 Dec 2019
Pickering mom fights for life-changing CF medicine to come to Canada
10 December 2019 - Stephanie Stavros feels like she's 'screaming into an abyss' as her life slips away. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2019
AbbVie reaches an agreement with the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance for Skyrizi (risankizumab) for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis
6 December 2019 - In May 2019 , Skyrizi received positive reimbursement recommendations from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2019
Family asking for help to purchase 'the most expensive drug in the world'
1 December 2019 - Ricardo Batista is desperately hoping for a cure for SMA, for his daughter Eva. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Nov 2019
Ontario and Quebec provide reimbursement for HIV therapies Pifeltro (doravirine) and Delstrigo (doravirine/lamivudine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate)
18 November 2019 - For more than 30 years, Merck has been committed to scientific research and discovery in HIV that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Nov 2019
'This drug saved my life;' cystic fibrosis patient accuses drug company, Canada of stalling on approval
17 November 2019 - A West Island woman living with cystic fibrosis says the prohibitive price of a drug is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Oct 2019
It’s time for Canada to embrace universal pharmacare and protect drug coverage from corporate erosion
28 October 2019 - President Trump recently unveiled an executive order — originally titled “Protecting Medicare from Socialist Destruction” — ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Oct 2019
Patients in Quebec now have access to Dupixent for the treatment of moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis
22 October 2019 - Quebec becomes the first province to list Dupixent for public reimbursement in adult patients. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2019
Canadian breakthrough that became the world's most expensive drug, then vanished, gets second chance
17 October 2019 - CBC story about how pharmaceutical industry abandoned gene therapy Glybera sparks NRC effort to re-invent it. ...