Pharmaceutical companies are Evil--3

The million-dollar drug--How a Canadian medical breakthrough that was 30 years in the making became the world’s most expensive drug — and then quickly disappeared

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/glybera

The million-dollar drug--How a Canadian medical breakthrough that was 30 years in the making became the world’s most expensive drug — and then quickly disappeared

 

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/glybera

Thanks for posting this. There are other cutting edge miracle pharmaceuticals like this that never make it to mass distribution.

  This drug worked so well for what it did, and it’s so sad that there are many others with this debilitating disease that don’t have access to this drug.

It’s so rare to come across pharmaceuticals like this that address the issue at its root cause.

You're welcome cs.  Yes, very sad when it is the greed of a filthy rich company standing between oneself and a cure that actually exists.  It must be doubly horrible for the afflicted, knowing there is was cure.  CBC’s had a lot of coverage lately on pharmaceutical and device companies, for which I am glad.

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CBC and Toronto Star are beginning extensive investigation into medical devices, collaborating with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:

'We're guinea pigs': Canada's oversight process for implanted medical devices stuns suffering patients

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/implanted-files-medical-devices-icij-1.4909196

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And apparently we have a drug shortage in Canada, not seen in 25 years:  https://globalnews.ca/news/4692947/alberta-pharmacists-drug-shortages-social-media/

http://www.canadadrugshortage.com/media-reports-canada/

There are shortages of sertraline, citalopram, gabapentin...

https://www.drugshortagescanada.ca/

I think this may be why:

Canada has found the key to lowering drug prices, but it won't be used any time soon

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-drug-price-patented-medicine-pharmaceutical-industry-pmprb-1.4919200

That's one reason why the industry's resistance has been so intense. And it's wielding a big stick, threatening that companies could hold back the launch of new drugs in Canada if the amendments are approved.

The pharmaceutical industry is also warning that it might reduce research and development in Canada, putting jobs at stake.

The industry has issues with each of those changes, insisting that there will be severe consequences to both drug access and to industry jobs.