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Addition of Kisqali to drug plan in Quebec expands access to treatment for metastatic breast cancer
19 September 2019 - Provincial reimbursement provides public access to treatment that may delay the progression of advanced breast cancer. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Sep 2019
National pharmacare cheaper than healing people who can't afford their drugs
17 September 2019 - A national pharmacare program could potentially reduce prescription drug spending by aggregating the buying power of all ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Sep 2019
Health technology agency insights: informing modification of a qualitative benefit risk framework for health technology reassessment of prescription medications
16 September 2019 - This study's intent was to determine if a qualitative benefit risk framework could be used or modified ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2019
FDA takes first action under new international collaboration with Australia and Canada designed to provide a framework for concurrent review of cancer therapies, approving treatment for patients with endometrial carcinoma
17 September 2019 - The U.S. FDA is announcing Project Orbis, an initiative of the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2019
I'm not in ...some Third World place': bladder cancer patients face ongoing scarcity of life-saving drug
16 September 2019 - Canada's only supplier, Merck, is now projecting BCG shortage will last until December 2020. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2019
Canada decides: Leading parties plan to tackle ways to make medicine affordable
16 September 2019 - Canadian voters will be hearing a lot about a new national prescription drug program to fill a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Sep 2019
Medexus reports Health Quality Ontario recommends Gliolan for public reimbursement
12 September 2019 - Medexus Pharmaceuticals today announced that Health Quality Ontario, under the guidance of the Ontario Health Technology ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2019
Public plans covered only 26% of the 491 new drugs approved by Health Canada from 2009 to 2018; national pharmacare is an empty promise for 23.2 million Canadians now covered by private plans
11 September 2019 - Two new studies confirm the abysmal state of access to innovative medicines in Canada’s publicly funded drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2019
Why Canada can't be America's pharmacy
11 September 2019 - Canada doesn't have enough drugs to share, and it doesn't want that role. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2019
New rules will keep the best medications from desperate Canadians
12 September 2019 - One reaction to recent amendments to the rules of the federal Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2019
Canada OKs Celltrion's biosimilar
10 September 2019 - Celltrion said that Health Canada has given the go-ahead for Herzuma (trastuzumab), an anticancer antibody biosimilar, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2019
Erosion of physician and patient treatment choice continues - Alliance for Safe Biologic Medicines raises concerns for patients as British Columbia expands biologics forced switching policy
10 September 2019 - On 5 September, the Government of British Columbia announced that it would be forcibly switching 1,700 patients ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Sep 2019
Canada releases final amendments to patented medicines pricing regulations
9 September 2019 - On 9 August 2019 Health Canada announced the final amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Sep 2019
Trudeau’s drug price overhaul is set to cost drug makers billions
6 September 2019 - Canada revamps drug-pricing regime for first time since 1987. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Sep 2019
NDP promises to restore special drugs program
4 September 2019 - Province paid deductible for chronic patients from 1968 to 2018. ...