Fair Pricing for 'Orphan' Medications

Monday, February 23, 2015 - 17:04 in Health & Medicine

Some new prescription drugs can be expensive. But the cost of medicines used to fight rare diseases can be off-the-charts ... costing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Now, the Canadian Medical Association is calling for new regulations and fair pricing for so-called 'orphan' drugs.

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