Canada’s drug companies have agreed to a plan that may help deal with the shortages of prescription products that have dogged the country for over a year.
A new pharmacy business unit focused on the contracting of specialized drugs is being introduced by the healthcare group purchasing organization HealthPRO Procurement Services Inc.
Province’s pharmacists’ association president says province should automatically approve generic equivalents to their formularies after Health Canada has okayed them.
Lawyer Catherine Perry says she warned Pharmacy Board more than two years ago that she suspected St. John’s pharmacist Ann Marie Burke was selling drugs and had become an addict.
