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The media is invited to contact the BMC regarding treatment access and related health issues from an informed patient perspective. Interviews can be arranged with knowledgeable patient representatives who are actively involved in current policy discussions on these issues. Providing national, regional and provincial perspectives, BMC members are located across Canada and represent a range of health conditions.

For more information or to arrange an interview, contact Paulette Eddy, Executive Director, paulette@bestmedicines.ca, Toll Free 1-888-807-7904

Op-Ed: Will Harper make health care history?

August 31, 2007 - Op-Ed published in the National Post about the need for equal and equitable access to medications for all Canadians and the need for reforms to the CDR to help achieve this access

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Letter to the Editor: Patients deserve access to medicines

August 13, 2007 - Letter to the Editor published in the Edmonton Journal about the Alberta government's decision to narrowly restrict Celebrex coverage

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Release: Canadians being denied life-saving treatments

May 9, 2007 - Media Release on BMC testimony before the federal Standing Committee on Health about the Common Drug Review and its role in stalling or preventing access to medications

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Release: Expansion of ineffective Common Drug Review disputed by patients

April 16, 2007 - Media Release contesting the announcement of the Common Drug Review's expanded mandate

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Release: Pharmacist, patient groups call for inquest into B.C. counterfeit-pills death

March 22, 2007 - Media Release calling for an inquest into the death of a British Columbia woman who died apparently after taking counterfeit pills ordered online from a purported Canadian internet pharmacy

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Coverage: Importing bulk drugs to U.S. bad medicine, Congress told

March 8, 2007 - Canadian Press coverage of U.S. Congress brief warning against the bulk import of Canadian prescription drugs to the U.S.

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Release: Message to Congress - Leave Canadian prescription drugs alone

March 7, 2007 - Media Release on U.S. Senate subcommittee brief warning that a proposed U.S. law could strip Canada of its entire prescription drug supply

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Letter to the Editor: Comments on Drug Pricing Regulation Article

January 17, 2007 - Letter to the Editor of the Globe & Mail contesting the suggestion to loosen Canada's drug pricing controls
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Release: U.S. Congress Threatens Canada's Prescription Drug Supply

January 10, 2007 - Media Release urging the Canadian goverment to ban the export, both bulk and retail, of prescription drugs from Canada to America, as proposed in recent U.S. legislation

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Release: Unequal Access to Medications Creates Two-Tier Healthcare System

December 8, 2006 - Media Release on unequal access to medications related to private and public plans' differing coverage

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