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PharmaCare covers medicine to treat rare diseases

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 18 Aug, 2023 03:44 PM
  • PharmaCare covers medicine to treat rare diseases

The province says its PharmaCare program now covers medications used to treat rare diseases such as A-L-S.

The Ministry of Health says the oral form of edaravone, which is used to treat A-L-S patients, will be added to the PharmaCare formulary as a limited-coverage benefit.

Two other drugs are also being added under the "Expensive Drugs for Rare Diseases" process.

Givosiran is used to treat A-H-P -- a metabolic disease -- while triheptanoin helps patients with rare genetic disorders.

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