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 unreported, leaving doctors...
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, zoology, ecology, and even bio-ethics. In what must...
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 Columbia linked its pharmacies and hospitals with a...
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 and Clinical Practice and...