Medical student questions how Health Canada licensed OxyContin By Jessie Pappin Students at Dalhousie Medical School must pass a mandatory longitudinal course, Research in Medicine, to graduate. This course has a double focus to: Help medical students...
Tramadol was marketed as an opioid analgesic in Germany in 1977, but not licenced in Canada until 2005. Health Canada has announced that it will add tramadol to Schedule I of the Controlled Drugs and...
Soon after mirtazapine was licensed in Canada, a 2002 Therapeutics Letter concluded that it has “no proven efficacy or safety advantage over other antidepressant therapies”.1 Mirtazapine was approved for symptomatic relief of depressive illness and...
An individual Portrait on prescribing opioids to opioid naïve patients was sent to approximately 5200 family doctors in BC, randomized to receive the Portrait in two groups. The Portraits were mailed to the early group...