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'We can't wait': life-saving cystic fibrosis drugs hard to access, advocates say
22 December 2019 - 'There's just not a fair assessment of these drugs and therefore, Canadians can't get them'. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2019
Pickering mother with cystic fibrosis pleads for ‘miracle drug’ to come to Canada
16 December 2019 - A Pickering mother fighting cystic fibrosis is calling for all levels of government and stakeholders to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Dec 2019
Alberta changes coverage of biologic drugs for people with Crohn's, diabetes, arthritis
12 December 2019 - The provincial government says will free up hundreds of millions of dollars in health funding during the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2019
Canadian study shows substantial savings possible with use of biosimilar filgrastim
12 December 2019 - During this week’s annual meeting of American Society of Hematology, researchers from Canada reported that using biosimilar ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2019
Alberta will force patients to switch from biologics to cheaper biosimilar medications
12 December 2019 - Alberta will force 26,000 patients on government-sponsored drug plans to switch from expensive drugs that are known ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Trudeau vague on scope of national pharmacare plan
9 December 2019 - New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh says he can’t support the Liberal government’s Speech from the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Innovative Medicines Canada bans members from paying doctors fees for IV infusions
11 December 2019 - Pharmaceutical companies will no longer be allowed to pay fees to Canadian doctors for overseeing intravenous ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
National pharmacare must come, even if some provincial governments are against it
10 December 2019 - Naysaying premiers were not elected because they opposed national pharmacare in the last round of provincial elections, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
Pickering mom fights for life-changing CF medicine to come to Canada
10 December 2019 - Stephanie Stavros feels like she's 'screaming into an abyss' as her life slips away. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
Pharmacare with no new medicines
10 December 2019 - Meeting with pricing officials shows that government's true goal is to slash prices so low that no ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2019
AbbVie reaches an agreement with the pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance for Skyrizi (risankizumab) for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis
6 December 2019 - In May 2019 , Skyrizi received positive reimbursement recommendations from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2019
B.C. wants federal health funding lift before national pharmacare program
3 December 2019 - B.C. wants more money from Ottawa for health care before a national pharmacare program is created, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2019
Premiers want Ottawa to allow opt out for proposed Pharmacare plan
2 December 2019 - Canada's premiers say they want the federal government to increase health-care transfer funds by just over ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2019
Family asking for help to purchase 'the most expensive drug in the world'
1 December 2019 - Ricardo Batista is desperately hoping for a cure for SMA, for his daughter Eva. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Nov 2019
Takhzyro (lanadelumab injection) receives positive recommendation from CADTH's Canadian Drug Expert Committee for the routine prevention of hereditary angioedema attacks
22 November 2019 - The positive recommendation is supported by the recently released findings of the Phase 3 Help Study™ Open-Label ...