Emerging Drug List

Emerging Drug List is an online series that profiles new drugs and vaccines while they are at an early stage of development, prior to Health Canada approval. Designed as a “heads up” for those who anticipate, plan, and manage drug coverage and prescribing decisions, these summaries identify drugs that are expected to have a high impact on utilization, patient outcomes, hospital operations, or drug budgets. Summaries include a description of the drug, patient indications, regulatory status, alternative drug treatments, adverse effects, cost, a summary of the early evidence, and general comments. Peer-reviewed by the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health’s internal staff.

Emerging Drug List are available to be downloaded in an electronic format only.