PMPRB beginning to have impact in Canada
Canada’s Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB), and its work in reducing the prices of branded medicines, is beginning to … read more »
Canada update: post-market benefit assessments and further information for devices
Health Canada have published guidance “to assist market authorisation holders in developing a post-market benefit-risk assessment for a marketed drug … read more »
Canadian initiative on oncology biosimilars gains traction with summit
Cancer Care Ontario has released its report on the Summit of the Pan-Canadian Oncology Biosimilars Initiative, aiming to encourage the … read more »
Health Canada issues guidelines to support use of real-world evidence in submissions
Health Canada has provided new guidance on the sorts of real-world evidence (RWE) it will accept during the life cycle … read more »
Canada rejects FDA naming suffixes
Canada has decided upon a naming system that will help to differentiate biological reference drugs from their biosimilars, joining the … read more »
Most Canadian medicine launches are for high-cost drugs
Canada’s Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) has published its assessment of the Canadian drugs market in 2017. The report … read more »
Quebec rules that listing decision must involve procedural fairness
The Quebec Court of Appeal has overruled a ministerial decision to delist Remicade from Quebec’s ‘List of Medicines’ on the … read more »
NICE and CADTH launch combined scientific advice service
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) … read more »
Intellectual Property Law in Canada: Ontario Supreme Court grants leave to amend pleading in patent infringement case
As reported by Mondaq, in a case at Ontario’s Supreme Court, 2018 ONSC 7736 , Abbott Laboratories has amended its … read more »
Legal updates from Canada
Three stories from Canada have caught our attention this week, all around legalities and regulations regarding medicines in the country. … read more »
