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Extreme regulations to lower drug prices mean Canada will get fewer new drugs
7 February 2020 - Severe price cuts would clearly discourage pharmaceutical manufacturers from launching new drugs in Canada. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2020
Pharma execs argue new Canadian regulations for setting drug prices will hurt the country
4 February 2020 - As Canada gets set to implement new regulations designed to cut prescription drug spending, the pharmaceutical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jan 2020
The Tories must learn from the Orkambi victory and keep drug-pricing off the table
12 January 2020 - To match its rhetoric on the NHS, the government has to legally commit to preventing drug-pricing being ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2020
Earlier access to cheaper medicines for 1.6 million Australians
1 January 2020 - The Australian Government is significantly lowering the threshold for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Safety Net from 1 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2019
Price disclosure 2020 April cycle outcomes summary
18 December 2019 - The summary of price disclosure price reductions for the 2020 April Cycle has now been published. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Health insurers call for federal crackdown on public hospital 'fraud'
11 December 2019 - Health funds are calling on federal health minister Greg Hunt to use the government's new data-matching ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2019
Government announces lowest health insurance premium increase in 19 years
7 December 2019 - The federal government has announced the lowest increase in private health insurance premiums in two decades, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2019
'Cannot be trusted ... causing harm': top medical journal takes on big pharma
4 December 2019 - A leading medical journal is launching a global campaign to separate medicine from big pharma, linking ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2019
Premiers want Ottawa to allow opt out for proposed Pharmacare plan
2 December 2019 - Canada's premiers say they want the federal government to increase health-care transfer funds by just over ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2019
Private health system in a 'death spiral', says expert, but what can be done to save it?
30 November 2019 - George Savvides, who ran Medibank for 14 years until 2016, describes the exodus of young people ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2019
NHS and drug prices could be included in US-UK trade deal, leaked documents suggest
27 November 2019 - The NHS and drug patents have been part of ongoing post-Brexit trade negotiations between the US ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Nov 2019
Medicare bill ‘puts every Australian at risk’
28 November 2019 - A new Medicare anti-fraud bill would put the privacy of every Australian at risk and create ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Nov 2019
Proposed Ontario drug regulation changes worry policy experts
22 November 2019 - The Ontario government is proposing drug regulation changes that it says will remove red tape and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Nov 2019
Auckland widow's wish to give away leftover cancer medication illegal under Medicines Act
20 November 2019 - An Auckland widow who spoke out about New Zealand's drug wastage after her husband's death will ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Nov 2019
Epilepsy sufferer says victims of PHARMAC drug switch should be compensated
19 November 2019 - An epilepsy sufferer who urged others to boycott the Government's change in anti-epileptic drug medication is ...