BMC News

Submission: CADTH Consultation on Patient Input into CDR Review Assessments

Submission to the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health on patient input into Common Drug Review assessments (Issued:  January 27, 2010)

Letter to the Editor: We deserve same drug coverage

Letter to the Editor on New Brunswick's need for a catastrophic drug plan (Published December 12, 2009)

Presentation & Submission on Bill 179

Best Medicines Coalition presented to the Ontario Standing Committee on Social Policy regarding Bill 179, Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 and the role of pharmacists. (Presented and submitted October 5, 2009)

Release: New Study Reveals BC Government’s Healthcare Silo Approach to Drug Policy Cost $43.5 million

The Canadian Society of Intestinal Research, a BMC member, has published a study revealing the high costs resulting from British Columbia's therapeutic substition policy (Released January 22, 2009)

Article: New agency to probe drug safety

Article in The Toronto Star about Health Canada's newly announced drug safety network for the post-market surveillance of medications (Published January 15, 2009)

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