Can U.S. Doctors and Drugstores Send or/and Transfer Prescriptions to Canada?

Drugs against diabetes, like insulin, is not something that one can delay taking; patients’ lives depend on it. It is disastrous the way out-of-control. Alarmingly, its increasing cost in the US drugstores forces people to seek alternative means of getting this drug. One of the easiest ways of getting affordable insulin is to travel to Canada, where it costs roughly 10 times less ($40 instead of $400 per bottle). However, the legal obligation for buying insulin abroad for U.S. citizens…

Can You Get a Prescription Online for a Canadian Pharmacy?

For Canada, the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) maintains the list of Canadian sites authorized to sell medicines online. Pharmacists established in Canada, owners of a pharmacy or managers of a pharmacy can sell medicines on the Internet. What Drugs Can Be Sold on the Internet in Canada? The electronic commerce of medicines is understood to mean the economic activity by which the pharmacist offers or ensures at a distance and by electronic means the retail sale and…

Prescription Medications in Canadian Pharmacy: All You Need to Know

Do we require prescription for generics? Does our pharmacy require prescription for medications we sell? Drugs that can be solely distributed with a prescription, and this includes most brand medications available here, should be purchased with a valid prescription only as required by authorities. Every legal prescription is connected to your electronic medical record and pharmacists will have the right to say no in case if your EMR does not include a treatment like this. Generic pills with the same…

How Do Canadian Pharmacies Integrate E-Prescribing Services?

The countdown has begun for this measure, which is part of the digital component of 2025 health plan. First step was experimentation, from 2017, of the dematerialized prescription of before its generalization in 2019. The e-prescription should then be extended to the acts of biology and paramedics between 2020 and 2022. Carried out by Canadian law, these experiments should, by the terms of their deployment, make the dematerialized prescription and the only vector of doctors’ prescription. Within one year, any…

The New Policy on Medication Price Regulation: How Will It Influence Ordinary Patients

The government of Canada is going to change the policy on the regulation of medicine prices. In case this reform is implemented, the prices for new brand drugs will be calculated in a different way, as a result, they will be reduced by up to 70%. The purpose of this innovation is to make new medications more affordable. However, some experts claim that the new rules may lead to serious problems. How are Medication Prices Formed in Canada? As of…

When NOT To Use Tetracycline?

In 1950 Professor Robert Woodward of Harvard University, working with a team of researchers from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer (KJ Brunings, Peter P. Regna, Francis A. Hochstein, Abraham Bavley, CR Stephens, LH Conover and Richard Pasternack), isolated the molecule from the Streptomyces rimosus strain and determined the chemical structure of the oxiteracycline, for which it also obtained the patent on the production process. The research process that led to this discovery lasted more than two years. What Is Tetracycline? Tetracyclines…

How To Dispose Of Unused Drugs: Standards at Canadian Pharmacies

Borderhealth.org may be a flagman of fair e-commerce trade of healthcare products, but we strive to become a leading purveyor of more environmentally friendly drug practices. Please share our vision of how the planet can be protected from preventable contamination by pharmaceutical residues on every level, starting from law-making authorities and running all the way down to consumers of pharmacy drugs, which is every single one of us. My Canadian Pharmacy: a brand that proactively cares for environment In its…

Ordering Drugs Online With And Without Insurance

The benefits of shopping for medications online Customers often find that Internet pharmacy shopping has the following advantages over shopping in a physical store: Accessibility is better compared to shopping in a regular pharmacy Making an order is quick and easy. It guarantees (hopefully) a quick and smooth delivery of the products. The customer does not need to travel to physically visit the drugstore as one must to visit a regular pharmacy store. E-pharmacies offer confidentiality that is impossible to…

Will Canadian Pharmacies Lower Prescription Drug Costs: Experts Opinion

The healthcare initiative agents teamed up with Canadian Senate Democrats made their case for procuring a set of governmental bills with the purpose of bringing down the cost of medical prescription pills. According to the critics, some law articles on the price of certain prescription pills will affect the state commission. And they want to regulate the insurance reimbursement for medical prescription meds.  The critics also believe that the offered bills will affect the patient’s safety. In addition, the critics…