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Jun 22, 2017 · Canadians were given a glimpse at the millions of dollars doctors receive each year from pharmaceutical companies, when 10 of the country's largest firms voluntarily disclosed the figures...
- Experts Say Canada Is Falling Behind Developed Countries
- Money Talks
- Transparency Around Opioid Producers
- How Are Governments responding?
Medical experts say the voluntary disclosures are essentially useless and have put Canada behind countries like the U.S., Japan and several European nations, including France and Denmark, where transparency laws allow patients to see how much money their doctors take from the pharmaceutical industry. “We are really lagging behind other advanced cou...
In the U.S., studies have shown how even small transfers of value can influence health-care providers. A 2016 study publishedin the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that industry-sponsored meals of less than $20 were associated with an increased rate of prescribing the brand-name medication being promoted. Another JAMA study...
Grundy said it’s now known that the over-prescribing of highly addictive painkillers contributed to the opioid crisis.Transparency laws, she said, could have helped officials better track the problem and any inappropriate interactions between drug companies and the health-care sector. “In the early days of these very powerful drugs, there was exten...
WATCH: Health Minister Petitpas Taylor announces new measures to tackle opioid crisis Last spring, Health Canada announced it was moving to further restrict the marketing of opioids, years after researchers first warned about the issue. As part of the move, the health agency began reviewing evidence of the benefits and harms of the promotional prac...
Jul 5, 2018 · Members of Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC), the lobby group for the large pharmaceutical companies, recently released their voluntary reports of payments to health-care professionals and health-care organizations. Altogether, the 10 reporting companies paid out more than $75 million in 2017.
Mar 19, 2024 · Over seven years (2016 to 2022) the 10 disclosing companies gave over $236 million to doctors and almost $213 million to organizations. Which doctors and organizations have received these...
Mar 6, 2024 · What do we know from the information that has been disclosed? Over seven years (2016-2022) the 10 disclosing companies gave over $236 million to doctors and almost $213 million to...
Jun 20, 2017 · Roche Canada offered more than $8 million in payments to doctors and health organization groups. In all, the 10 companies offered more than $48 million in payments in 2016, though not all...
Oct 17, 2019 · More than 2,500 physicians have received at least half a million dollars apiece from drugmakers and medical device companies in the past five years alone, a new ProPublica analysis of payment...
