Former director general: Health Canada needs broader drug safety powers

A Silversides - 2006 - Can Med Assoc
News impact of drugs on patients.“Governments have walked away from drug development
and left this to the commercial sector,” he said. But by promoting data linkage and drug …

[HTML][HTML] Health Canada's investment in new post-market drug surveillance network a “pittance”

A Silversides - 2008 - Can Med Assoc
413 tazone] Avandia,” he says.“You need a system that is capable of detecting an increase
in adverse reactions that are not, like sudden fatal liver disease, well recognized,” he says …

[HTML][HTML] Health Canada wants more funds from pharma

L Vogel - 2017 - Can Med Assoc
E846 CMAJ| JUNE 19, 2017| VOLUME 189| ISSUE 24 said Jim Keon, president of the
Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association.“Health Canada review staff would first pick …

The good old drugs!

IR Edwards - Drug safety, 2009 - Springer
The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) blames increasing drug safety
concerns for slower growth in health spending.[1] In the Chicago Tribune Inside Health Care …

[BOOK][B] Drug safety and Health Canada

J Lexchin - 2009 - policycommons.net
The report then looks specifically at the al-the drugs approved by Health Canada subse-
location of resources between the Therapeutic quently needed to be withdrawn from the mar …

Drug safety and Health Canada

J Lexchin - International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 2010 - content.iospress.com
Abstract The Food and Drugs Act theoretically gives Health Canada considerable authority
in dealing with safety issues but there are also significant limitations in the legislation …

Health Canada" harmonizing down" on drug regulations

L Vogel - Canadian Medical Association. Journal, 2011 - search.proquest.com
Abstract The study, Who's Calling the Tune: Harmonization of Drug Regulation in Canada,
criticizes the department for" deliberately ignoring" harmonization efforts that raise regulatory …

[HTML][HTML] Can Health Canada protect Canadians from unsafe drugs?

PC Hébert, MB Stanbrook, N MacDonald, K Flegel… - CMAJ, 2011 - Can Med Assoc
Governments have promised to modernize Canada's antiquated laws governing therapeutic
drugs since 1995—only to balk on the threshold of change, at best tinkering around its …

[BOOK][B] Who's calling the tune: Harmonization of drug regulation in Canada

J Lexchin - 2011 - policycommons.net
Against this under US $1.1 billion and it employed 4,816 full-backdrop, the IFPMA took
responsibility for or-time equivalents (FTE), 1, 2 compared to CAN $98 ganizing a series of …

[HTML][HTML] Health Canada proposes new regulatory regime for drugs

W Kondro - 2007 - Can Med Assoc
The evidence underpinning the benefit–risk profile would “contextualize” the traditional
safety, efficacy and quality evidence, and include other information such as “considerations …