Drug company experts advised staff to withhold data about SSRI use in children

W Kondro - Cmaj, 2004 - Can Med Assoc
An internal document advised staff at the international drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to
withhold clinical trial findings in 1998 that indicated the antidepressant paroxetine (Paxil in …

Proposed Canada Food Guide called „obesogenic”

W Kondro - 2006 - Can Med Assoc
News guide will contribute to obesity or encourage consumption of fewer fruits and vegetables.
Rather, it offers a greater degree of specificity and precision by demographic group, she …

E coli outbreak deaths spark judicial inquiry in Canada

W Kondro - The Lancet, 2000 - thelancet.com
The Ontario provincial government has reluctantly convened a judicial inquiry into the worst
public sanitation scandal in Canadian history. The government was forced to act in the wake …

Medical errors increasing because of complexity of care and breakdown in doctor-patient relationship, physician consultant says

W Kondro - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2010 - Can Med Assoc
The message was direct: many a doctor is out of sync with patients and as a consequence
often does them a disservice or makes preventable medical mistakes. The paradigm for the …

[HTML][HTML] Eleven satellite campuses enter orbit of Canadian medical education

W Kondro - 2006 - Can Med Assoc
News because there’sa generational difference in facility with electronics.“They actually prefer
the video conference lecture because they feel the best person to teach was teaching all …

Health of rural Canadians lags behind urban counterparts

W Kondro - CMAJ, 2006 - Can Med Assoc
Poverty, motor vehicle crashes, suicide, cardiovascular disease and diabetes are among a
raft of contributory factors to higher death rates and shorter life expectancies for rural …

[HTML][HTML] Afghanistan: Outside the comfort zone in a war zone

W Kondro - 2007 - Can Med Assoc
According to the handbook, other factors that should be weighed in decisions involving
individual patients include time spent with an individual casualty, evacuation options, medical …

Canadian report quantifies cost of medical errors

W Kondro - The Lancet, 2004 - thelancet.com
Use of the drug in pregnant women was discontinued in most countries in the early 1970s
after research showed that daughters were at increased risk of developing clear-cell …

Athletes'“designer steroid” leads to widening scandal

W Kondro - The Lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
All kinds of people are going to be running for their lawyers”, Dick Pound, the Canadian head
of the Montreal-based World Anti-Doping Agency, predicted last week, as the twisted tale …

[HTML][HTML] Academic drug detailing: an evidence-based alternative

W Kondro - 2007 - Can Med Assoc
Program Director Loren Regier says the 10-year-old, $315 000 per year initiative also
conducts sessions at medical conferences, issues newsletters and email updates through the …