Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Sep 2019
'Outrageously expensive': new drug approval will cost Ontario family 100K per year
30 August 2019 - Drug cost jumped from $5,000 to more than $100,000 per year.
A Port Elgin, Ont., family says the drug needed to keep their nine-year-old daughter from going blind is about to become unaffordable after Health Canada approved a plan that would increase its cost by nearly 2,000 percent.
Olivia Little needs eye drops every hour to help treat her cystinosis, an ultra-rare genetic disease that causes crystals to build up in the eyes and impacts various organs.
