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Drugs are outrageously expensive—Canada found a way to fight back
27 October 2023 - Latuda is a drug to treat schizophrenia. It costs about $4,000 per month in the US. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Sep 2020
Couple move to America to afford life saving treatment
27 September 2020 - Joseph and Julie Moon are abandoning their dream lives in New Zealand, forced to return to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jun 2020
Pharmacist claiming of paracetamol 500 mg with codeine 30 mg tablet prescriptions from 1 June 2020
1 June 2020 - Commencing 1 June 2020, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme listings for opioid medicines will change. Included in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Mar 2020
The U.S. has a problem with prescription drug prices. Canada shouldn’t try to fix it.
2 March 2020 - President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress are scrambling to find ways to make medicines more ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Mar 2020
U.K. sets red lines on drug prices, food in U.S. trade talks
2 March 2020 - Johnson’s government publishes goals for negotiations. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Feb 2020
The grass is the same colour, part II: prescription drug woes on both sides of the US-Canada border
13 February 2020 - Which industrialised nation with a fractured health care system and a divided government is having a high-stakes ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2020
Why Canada won't end up as the drugstore to the U.S.
16 January 2020 - Although in theory the new U.S. import proposals could significantly affect Canadians and their drug supplies, their ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2019
Donald Trump says US would never take over any part of Britain’s NHS
3 December 2019 - US President Donald Trump has reassured the British public that even if the National Health Service ...
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 29 Oct 2019
NHS bill for US drugs 'could soar under post-Brexit trade deal'
28 October 2019 - Dispatches investigation finds 'drug pricing' has been discussed in six initial meetings between trade officials from the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2019
NICE to be sovereign: U.K. rejects Trump suggestion to include NHS in possible trade deal
18 June 2019 - In the face of the increasing odds of a hard Brexit, and the prospect of the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jun 2019
Orkambi row: government now considering Crown Use licensing
11 June 2019 - MPs call for radical solutions as deadlock remains. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jun 2019
Not playing NICE: UK drugs gatekeeper in US crosshairs
10 June 2019 - The U.S. wants Britain to buy more of its drugs after Brexit — but it also ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jun 2019
Could the NHS be part of a US-UK trade deal?
5 June 2019 - Donald Trump sparked concern about the health service’s future but the reality is more complex. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jun 2019
Trump says UK’s National Health Service not on table in trade talks
5 June 2019 - ‘When you’re dealing in trade everything’s on the table, so NHS or anything else,’ US president said ...