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According to the Health Council of Canada's 2010 report "Decisions, Decisions: Family doctors as gatekeepers to prescription drugs and diagnostic imaging in Canada", the Canadian federal government invested $3 billion over 5 years (2000–2005) in relation to diagnostic imaging and agreed to invest a further $2 billion to reduce wait times.
Canada's Drug Agency ( CDA; French: L’Agence des médicaments du Canada, AMC) is a pan-Canadian health organization responsible for coordinating and aligning drug policy across provinces and territories. The CDA provides Canada 's various healthcare organizations with evidence-based advice, allowing them to make informed choices about drug ...
The role of therapeutic goods regulation is designed mainly to protect the health and safety of the population. Regulation is aimed at ensuring the safety, quality, and efficacy of the therapeutic goods which are covered under the scope of the regulation. In most jurisdictions, therapeutic goods must be registered before they are allowed to be ...
Within the year of 2014, the cost of prescriptions had increased by at least 11.4% and 58% within the last eight years. The average cost for a month supply of brand-name drugs can run up to a couple of hundred US dollars, whereas in Canada and Great Britain the same medication could cost up to $40 US dollars.
Mario E., the founder of Beinghuman, said that Walmart’s selection of electronics “look expensive, but are actually very affordable.” Many of these items, like televisions and laptops, go ...
The Health Products and Food Branch ( HPFB) of Health Canada manages the health-related risks and benefits of health products and food by minimizing risk factors while maximizing the safety provided by the regulatory system and providing information to Canadians so they can make healthy, informed decisions about their health.
Drugs are more expensive, doctors are paid more, and suppliers charge more for medical equipment than other countries. [48] Journalist Todd Hixon reported on a study that U.S. spending on physicians per person is about five times higher than peer countries, $1,600 versus $310, as much as 37% of the gap with other countries.
The prescription-drug market currently generates a whopping $950 billion in annual sales, and that figure is likely to grow to $1.2 trillion by 2016. Despite having hundreds, even thousands, of ...