Talk:Patented Medicine Prices Review Board/Archives/2012

Main Discussion of the PMPRB Article
Please stop interjecting editorial and discussion into the article itself. That belongs here, on the article's discussion page. Also, there is little context for what this page actually is. Rwiggum (Talk /Contrib ) 21:59, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Alright, this article, in its current incarnation, isn't quite up to Wikipedia's standards. But, since it's been nominated for "speedy-deletion" I've added-in the "hang-on"-template so as to formally request that the deletion of the article be postponed, at least for a little while. I am currently drafting a law review article on comparative health law, and the PMPRB would be important to learn about. After I'm done with my session of typing for the article tonight, I plan on creating at least a minimally acceptable article for the PMPRB on wikipeda myself. In the meantime... Please refrain from deleting this article. AlphaFactor (talk) 22:06, 7 June 2008 (UTC)


 * If you're working on an article in progress, then your best bet would be to create it in a user subpage. Unfortunately, once an actual article exists, it qualifies for Wikipedia's standards for Speedy Deletion. Rwiggum  (Talk /Contrib ) 22:08, 7 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, in the meantime, what's say that you and I try to polish it up a bit so that it meets the relevant minimum threshold? I'm actually, quite serious, too. For you and I to at least try to create and polish up this particular article would be, I feel strongly, a good deed that would be for the public good.AlphaFactor (talk) 22:22, 7 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I've converted this to a usable stub, and then removed the speedy tag that I applied. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 22:30, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Patented Medicine Prices Review Board
In Canada, drugs that are still under patent and which yet have no generic substitutes are regulated by the federal Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB). This Board establishes the maximum prices that can be charged in Canada for patented drugs. The PMPRB has been credited with keeping average annual price increases for patented drugs at or below zero since 1992. In addition, Canadian drug price levels fell from 123 percent of the median drug price level for seven industrialized countries (France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States) in 1987 to 101 percent of the comparator median in 2002. During that same period, the average U.S. prices for patented drugs rose from 36 percent above to 67 percent above average Canadian prices.

Not Much of An Article, Is It?
Well, well, well. So... you thought there would be an article on the "Patented Medicine Prices Review Board" (better known as the PMPRB) right here, eh?

Well, I'm afraid there isn't. Which is a shame.

Frankly, it's damn important that a new article be created on the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board due to its critical role in Canadian public health and for the insights it might provide in designing pharmaceutical regulatory schemes in other countries.

As you might have guessed, I've already created an "article request" over at this request page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Other_categorization_schemes#Canada

But, by creating this smart-mouth placeholder here, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this page will get created and soon.

To that end, I would direct administrators to the following heading...

Administrators: Do NOT Delete
Administrators, please do not delete this article/placeholder. Instead, join me in finding a couple of good wikipedia editors that are informed as to public health regulation in Canada and elsewhere and whom could be expected to competently create the article. Yes, creating a placeholder-ish page like this one here is rather out of the ordinary, but after I did some reflection, it seemed to be a good way to expedite the creation of the article.

Once such a noble and informed soul takes upon the task of creating an article on the "Patented Medicine Prices Review Board", I would respectfully suggest perhaps making use of the links below:

Possible Sources of Information
[1]http://www.aarpinternational.org/resourcelibrary/resourcelibrary_show.htm?doc_id=547057

http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/38/16/6-a

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/409807_3

http://www.pmprb-cepmb.gc.ca/english/home.asp?x=1

and, yes. even...

http://www.google.com/search?q=pmprb&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS226US227

If you lads were to create this article, not only would I be indebted to you, but also a legion of persons that are looking for a good starting point to educate themselves on the various aspects of the PMPRB.

As you can see, I had a real point in retaining the "ranting" portions. But... enough about that. HELP ME CREATE THIS ARTICLE. AlphaFactor (talk) 22:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)