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PMPRB report shows increased plan costs, promising pharmaceutical innovation: expert
20 September 2023 - A recent report by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board shows increased growth for private drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Aug 2023
PMPRB report reveals most new medicines come to market with high treatment costs
22 August 2023 - The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board published today the 7th edition of its annual Meds Entry Watch ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 May 2023
Canada’s health minister denies interfering in agency’s efforts to lower drug costs
27 April 2023 - Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says he has not exercised any undue political pressure on the independent ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Mar 2023
Resignations at Canada’s drug pricing panel raise independence questions
14 March 2023 - A member of Canada’s drug pricing regulator has resigned, stating the federal government has undermined the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Mar 2023
Lower drug prices are a good thing. Canada’s approach to achieving them was not.
17 March 2023 - Over the past six years, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board – Canada’s federal drug-price regulating agency ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2023
Health minister disputes claim he sided with big pharma, interfered with drug price consultations
1 March 2023 - Review board 'will never be subjected to political interference,' Duclos said. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Mar 2023
The drug prices review board was once a solution. It’s now a problem.
1 March 2023 - Anti-drug company activists are repeating ill-informed myths about controlling drug prices in Canada. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Feb 2023
Member of Canada’s drug pricing regulator quits over ‘lack of support’ for medicine cost reforms
23 February 2023 - A member of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, Canada’s drug pricing regulator, has resigned over ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Nov 2022
Implementation of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board's proposed Guidelines will harm Canadian patients
10 November 2022 - Innovative Medicines Canada is calling on Health Canada to direct the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Nov 2022
New PMPRB guidelines proposed for assessing prices of patented medicines sold in Canada
4 November 2022 - Controversial amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations changing the basket of comparator countries considered by the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Oct 2022
PMPRB finds ultra-rare drug Procysbi is excessively priced
26 October 2022 - On 1 September 2022, a Panel of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board issued a decision that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Oct 2022
Federal drug price watchdog consulting public on proposed changes to its pricing guidelines
7 October 2022 - The PMPRB's guidelines explain how its staff monitor and review patented medicine prices to ensure they are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jun 2022
Canadian drug prices: new regulations could save billions of dollars
15 June 2022 - New drug price regulations set to come into effect next month could lower spending on patented ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 May 2022
After a 5 year fight to lower drug prices, Ottawa's pledge quietly falls apart
12 May 2022 - What began with a promise to protect Canadians ended with a commitment to support pharmaceutical companies. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Apr 2022
Canada is settling for half measures on drug price regulations
22 April 2022 - After a two-year delay, new federal regulations for patented medicine prices will come into force this ...