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Canada’s Drug Agency publishes new guidance for rare disease registries in Canada
28 February 2025 - On Rare Disease Day — a global event dedicated to raising awareness for the millions of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2025
Bimzelx (bimekizumab) negotiations with pCPA concluded successfully following positive CDA and INESSS recommendations for adults with active psoriatic arthritis and adults with active ankylosing spondylitis
28 February 2025 - Positive CDA and INESSS reimbursement recommendations are an important step towards public access to Bimzelx, the first ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Feb 2025
Government of Canada signs Pharmacare agreement with Manitoba to improve affordable access to medications
27 February 2025 - Additional agreement will improve access and affordability of drugs for rare diseases. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Feb 2025
ViiV Healthcare and the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance successfully finalise negotiations for Apretude for HIV-1 pre-exposure prophylaxis
13 February 2025 - ViiV Healthcare is pleased to announce it has successfully completed negotiations with the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2025
Medexus and Ontario's Provincial Health Services successfully complete agreements for public reimbursement of Trecondyv (treosulfan for injection) in Ontario, Canada
4 February 2025 - Medexus recently completed listing agreements with Ontario's Ministry of Health (Ontario Public Drug Programs) and Ontario ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Jan 2025
Drugs for rare diseases – Ontario agreement
24 January 2025 - Today, the Governments of Canada and the province of Ontario signed the National Strategy for Drugs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jan 2025
International collaboration provides new guidance on the use of surrogate endpoints in cost effectiveness analysis
9 January 2025 - Recommendations will help organisations that appraise new drugs establish whether their use will result in longer-term ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jan 2025
Astellas receives Health Canada approval for Vyloy (zolbetuximab) in combination with chemotherapy for advanced gastric and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer
9 January 2024 - Canada's Drug Agency recently issued draft recommendation to reimburse Vyloy with conditions. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Dec 2024
Alnylam Canada signs letter of intent from pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance for the public reimbursement of Amvuttra for the treatment of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults
18 October 2024 - One step closer to achieving public reimbursement of Amvuttra for hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis. patients in Canada ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Dec 2024
Novartis and the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance achieve milestone agreement for Pluvicto
13 December 2024 - Targeted radioligand therapy closer to public reimbursement for eligible Canadian patients with PSMA positive metastatic castration ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Dec 2024
Roche Canada and the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance successfully complete negotiations for Tecentriq SC (atezolizumab solution for subcutaneous injection)
13 December 2024 - Roche Canada today announced that it successfully completed negotiations with the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance for Tecentriq ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Dec 2024
Government of Canada signs bilateral agreement with Alberta to improve access to drugs for rare diseases
5 December 2024 - Today, the Honourable Mark Holland, Canada's Minister of Health, and the Honourable Adriana LaGrange, Alberta's Minister ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Dec 2024
Canada’s Drug Agency launches consultation on methods guide
28 November 2024 - Canada’s Drug Agency is launching a consultation on its first ever methods guide. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2024
BC man calls on federal, provincial governments to cover his costly, life saving cancer treatment
30 November 2024 - Pharmaceutical company Novartis says a five dose treatment costs about $135K. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Nov 2024
Lilly Canada remains steadfast in commitment to access options for patients amidst controversial CDA-AMC recommendation for Ebglyss (lebrikizumab)
19 November 2024 - Eli Lilly Canada is disappointed and strongly disagrees with Canada's Drug Agency (CDA-AMC)'s Final Recommendation for Ebglyss ...