History matters – a century after insulin’s discovery, we’re going backwards - Healthy Debate For the record: Big Pharma exploits people who need insulin, charging them a high price for a medicine they would and do die without. ⁦Adrian Dix⁩ ⁦ healthydebate.ca/2022/02/topic/…

Today at the Brazilian Cystic Fibrosis Congress a protest was held at the Vertex Pharmaceuticals stand. Participants are demanding that they lower their prices and enable access to #Trikafta in Brazil and around the world. The global CF community is united and demand action now 👊💊🌎

Public Pharmacare is worth fighting for. KW Council of Canadians is organizing a Townhall on Pharmacare on Tues, May 16 from 7-9 pm at First United Church. Avi Lewis Dr. WASEM AL-SABBAGH #OnPoli #CdnPoli

"Pharma companies have substantial influence over how medical knowledge is produced, circulated and consumed." -> Consilium Scientific event on KOLs on 08 June mailchi.mp/consilium-scie… #lobbying

Liberals were set to implement key drug-price reforms that would have saved Canadians $3 billion in one year. Then, the health minister intervened. This week, parliament launched a probe into Duclos’ intervention. It started with a ground-breaking investigation by

Congratulations Françoise! You are 'impact ethics' personified -- great to see your contribution honoured with this prestigious prize. - Sharon

Love that "Nb" -- Not all patient groups toe the industry line!!

Excellent transparency initiative by members of #HESA, the HofC Health Committee. Lots here for journalists to chew on Carly Weeks Teresa Wright André Picard iPolitics. See @KCroweToronto's latest piece in The Breach.

#Pharma playing dirty. That is, Pharma being Pharma. Merck sues the US government over negotiated pricing of drugs for Medicare program *for the elderly* -- claiming its "rights under the constitution were violated" bmj.com/content/381/bm… Colleen Fuller Sharon Batt Don Davies

An excellent piece. Patients are in a terrible position, but further relaxing standards helps no one. Key quote: "If the crusade for access wasn’t accompanied by a commensurately spirited campaign for answers, the chief beneficiaries would be the pharmaceutical companies."

Emerging story from Nova Scotia - and an ER with no doctor. Mayor of Middleton says firefighters had to be called to the hospital to deal with a patient with cardiac arrest. Patient died. Letter below supplied by Beth 🇨🇦✌💟 🦞☘️ #Emergency CAEP

A #whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. His report began: 'Now is the time to properly address items that may pose a safety risk to personnel.' He was fired. finance.yahoo.com/news/whistlebl…

This is bang on.

This is why controlling drug prices matters and why ersatz patient advocates who want drugs rushed to market are betraying the people they claim to represent: theconversation.com/canadas-misgui… Dr. Nancy Olivieri Colleen Fuller Janice Graham Liv-A-Little Linda Furlini @KCroweToronto

A worthy rant -- watch it, act on it, spread it. youtube.com/watch?v=tMhgw5… Colleen Fuller Dr. Nancy Olivieri Linda Furlini Marc-André Gagnon Joel Lexchin Matthew Herder (@mattherder.bksy.social)

Excellent investigative article in The Star today, about online telehealth prescribing: I got a prescription for Ozempic, even though I shouldn’t have qualified. How the rise of for-profit telehealth companies has led to bad medicine thestar.com/news/investiga… via Toronto Star

Carly, thank you for this article and for your many excellent stories over the years. I’m happy you have a new gig you look forward to, but health reporters of your caliber are scarce and I’m sorry Canadian journalism is losing you. Good luck, from a longtime reader!