Ontario Doctors Question Long Wait for Hepatitis C Drug Incivek

Ontario doctors question long wait for hepatitis C drug Incivek

Filed under: drug treatment news 2011

It's been over a year since the Health Ministry's committee to evaluate drugs began looking at Incivek, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., and approved by Health Canada in August of 2011. A standard 12-week course of treatment …
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Clashes over methadone treatment

Filed under: drug treatment news 2011

Of the 19,000 drug treatments started in 2011-12, less than one-fifth were for prescribed drugs including methadone. "There is an assumption, a tendency, to assume out there that everybody is on methadone, and that simply is not true," she said. Of the …
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