Faced with a growing shortage of medical professionals, the Alberta government is
spending $1.4 million over 3 years on groundbreaking programs designed to get more …

Allan D. Sniderman rapid and cannot be sustained will add to the problem rather than solve
it. Indeed, all that is requested is that regulatory agencies apply the same thoroughness in …

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) recently reported that Quebec shows a
net loss in the interprovincial migration of physicians, 1 and this poor performance is …

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 …

In September 2006 an Institute of Medicine (IOM) ad hoc committee on the Assessment of
the US Drug Safety System released its report entitled “The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting …

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 …

Carole Lalonde user charges paid for close to 50% of the overall cost of running the drug
regulatory system. 8 Bill C-212 was introduced as a private member's bill by Liberal Member …

The appointment of someone who is a rare combination of clinigenerally not shared by
those who have had the experience of cian, academic, and Washington insider was warmly …

“There are serious problems in both the review function… and also in the postmarket
surveillance process.” Subsequent to Graham's testimony, a survey of almost 400 FDA …

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 …