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Study Suggests Importing Drugs May Work in U. S.
Submitted by Jen Haberkorn on 6.23.2005
Acquiring drugs from other countries has worked in the European Union, a sign it could work here with Canada and the EU, according to an AARP report released yesterday.
Big Pharma Looks To Fill New Media Script As Feds Crack Down On TV Ads
Submitted by David Kaplan on 6.20.2005
AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER television advertising has made pharmaceuticals one of the largest advertising categories, the continuing controversy over such ads is causing marketers and industry observers to search for marketing reforms as the specter of greater federal oversight looms.
Wary, and weary, of drug ads
Submitted by Melissa Healy on 6.20.2005
The messages are everywhere, but now some lawmakers, consumers and physicians are saying, "Enough."
Americans should heed Canadians' health woes
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 6.17.2005
Canada's single-payer health care system is making news on both sides of the border. In the United States, influential Americans in politics, media and academia call for the United States to adopt a Canadian style, government-financed health care system. A few hundred miles north, Canadian patients are making news by petitioning their courts for the right to opt out of theirs.
Unsocialized Medicine
Submitted on 6.13.2005
Let's hope Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy were sitting down when they heard the news of the latest bombshell Supreme Court ruling. From the Supreme Court of Canada, that is. That high court issued an opinion last Thursday saying, in effect, that Canada's vaunted public health-care system produces intolerable inequality.
Canada Care
Submitted on 6.10.2005
Since New York politicians from Senator Clinton to Mayor Bloomberg have been touting Canada as the solution to America's medical cost problems, it's worth marking an important decision yesterday by the Supreme Court of Canada that may come to be seen as the beginning of the end of Canada's socialized health-care system
California Think Tank Establishes New Website and Policy Blog
Submitted on 6.9.2005
SAN FRANCISCO –The Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank based in California, announced today the establishment of the Center for Medicines in the Public Interest (http://www.rxcmpi.org), a clearing-house for up-to-the-minute analysis on the policies that affect the development, accessibility, and safety of pharmaceuticals.
Canadian Court Paves Way for Private Health Insurance
Submitted by Joe Schneider on 6.9.2005
Canada's highest court struck down a ban preventing Quebeckers from buying private health insurance, paving the way for private clinics and threatening Canada's universal health-care system.
Approving New Medicines in Canada: Health Canada Needs a Dose of Competition
Submitted by John R. Graham on 6.1.2005
One of the areas in which Canada lags the world is in the speed with which it allows its citizens to use new medicines. The Canadian government forbids patients from using prescription drugs that American, European, and Australian patients have already used months earlier.
Canadian Drugs Can’t Solve High-Drug-Price Problems
Submitted by Deroy Murdock on 6.1.2005
It’s been months since the Easter Bunny completed his Sunday rounds; perhaps he will now fulfill the fantasies of U.S. politicians and make Canadian drug importation work.
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