Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos has put a six-month pause on new regulations designed to lower the cost of patented medicines in Canada. Health Canada first announced in 2019 that the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board would change how it sets a price cap on medicines in Canada in an effort to lower excessively expensive […]
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As more doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine make their way into arms across the country, another vaccine is in the homestretch of the approval process. Health Canada says it will “soon” be ready to announce if it can authorize the Moderna vaccines, having received final documents from the American biotech firm on the weekend.