Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

The two lawsuits—one on behalf of two families and another on behalf two families and the physicians who treat their children—pose legal challenges to legislation signed into law Friday by Republican Gov. Kay Ivey.

Collectively, businesses already have faced settlements, judgements and civil and criminal penalties totaling more than $47 billion.

Rami Abdelmalek, co-owner of a Pharmasave in Ottawa, tried to pin misconduct on an employee who didn’t exist, according to the Ontario College of Pharmacists

Dental care for low- and medium-income families is a major tenet of the confidence and supply agreement the Liberals signed with the NDP to keep the government in power until 2025.

The Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada noted its eagerness to hear more about the specifics of what the federal government has planned for pharmacare.

Sameh Sadek transferred millions of dollars of ill-gotten wealth offshore, according to court documents. When he and his pharmacist wife Lilian Fam fled to Egypt in 2018, they left behind millions more in assets that included four houses and luxury cars.

The government expects to launch a new dental program in 2022, starting with children under the age of 12 at an initial cost of $300 million.

Since January 2016, almost 25,000 people have died from opioid-related causes, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada, which compiles the data from all provinces except Quebec.