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A hard-hitting editorial published in today’s BMJ by Fiona Godlee, BMJ Editor in chief, raises the call for clinical trial data for all drugs in current use to be made avai
When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go u
By Elizabeth May. Originally printed in the Hill Times. It was once the case that the term “life sciences” meant the scientific study of living organisms. It meant biology, zo
CBC Health published an article on September 4, 2012 on how inappropriate prescriptions for drugs prone to misuse and addiction, such as opioid painkillers, decreased when British
In an Op-Ed piece published in the Opinion pages of the New York Times on August 19, 2012, H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy a
Two professors wrote last week in the British Medical Journal that cries from the pharmaceutical industry over an “innovation crisis” borne of government intervention i
Provinces must take steps to cut drug costs Better management would redirect savings to other parts of medicare By Adrian Dix And Mike Farnworth, Times Colonist August 4, 2012 In
In an article published in the BMJ on July 18 Andrew Jack, pharmaceuticals correspondent, Financial Times asks if the heyday of such aggressive marketing of pharmaceuticals (as the
Authors: Richard L. Morrow, Jane Garland, James M. Wright, Malcolm Maclure, Suzanne Taylor, Colin R. Dormuth Contact Author: Richard Morrow, E-mail richard.morrow@ti.ubc.ca Ab
The 2011 Prescrire Awards are announced in Paris http://english.prescrire.org/en/81/168/47709/0/NewsDetails.aspx This year’s annual Drug Awards, announced on 26 January in