Developing countries lose out on Canadian generic drugs.
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Halting rising drug costs in Canada
Workers at the Moosehead Brewery in Saint John have been locked out for three weeks in a different kind of labour dispute: over high drug costs. The company says it can no longer afford to pay 100 per cent of these costs to its retirees, and wants employees to kick in 30 per cent -- a reminder of the pressures of drug costs on private as well as public plans.
Meanwhile, one of Quebec's foremost public health specialists, Dr. Fernand Turcotte, co-founder of the Laval medical school, recently announced a shattering realization: "that the things I had been teaching my students for 35 years were not true."
October 25, 2010 |
The National Union of Public and General Employees is concerned that big name pharmaceutical companies are attempting to sway trade negotiations to expand their patent rights.
