Tag: Prescription

Does Your Doctor Get Money From Drug Companies? It’s Not Easy To Find Out – Health – CBC News

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By invitation only, 300 Canadian doctors have a chance to earn $6,600 on top of their usual public health-care fees by taking part in some research. Here’s what they have to do: sign up 12 high-risk heart patients, see each of them three times as part of normal practice, and fill out forms describing what drugs were prescribed. The doctors get an additional $500 for attending a three-hour information session about the research. It’s called the Guidelines Oriented Approach to Lipid Lowering (GOAL). And it is one example of how…

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Canada Paying More For Prescription Drugs Than Most Other High-Income Countries: Study | CTV News

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According to a new study, Canadians are paying far more for primary care prescription drugs than people who live in most other high-income countries with universal healthcare. The study, which was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday by a team of Canadian and American researchers, compared the volume and daily cost of primary care prescription drugs in Canada with those in nine other high-income countries: Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the U.K., France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. All of these countries, except Canada, offer universal coverage…

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