Medicine costs drive seniors to food banks
Over the past decade, the share of food bank users over age 65 increased from 3% to 7% in Toronto. Last year alone, there was a 27% jump in seniors …
Posts in category Access to Affordable Medicines
“Big Pharma vs Everyone”: Winner — 2017 Sanofi Pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Research Journalism
Big Pharma Versus Everyone RoB Magazine November 2016
Access to Affordable MedicinesDiseases of NeglectEpidemics & PandemicsGlobal HealthHealthcare PoliticsIndigenous HealthScience
National Observer: Nigeria’s war on polio and terrorism
A field report on war and disease in northern Nigeria
Access to Affordable MedicinesAddiction, Depression, Psychosis, SchizophreniaCanadian Science PolicyDrug PoliticsHealthcare Privatization: A Global Business Campaign
Canada Repulses Pharma’s NAFTA Patent Case
CMAJ April 18 2017 Canada Wins Legal Battle to Set Patent Rules
Access to Affordable MedicinesAddiction, Depression, Psychosis, SchizophreniaDiseases of NeglectDrug PoliticsEpidemics & PandemicsGlobal HealthHealthcare PoliticsHealthcare Privatization: A Global Business CampaignIndigenous HealthScience
Poor countries may at last have a solution for cheap generic drug access
Access to Affordable MedicinesAntibiotic ResistanceCanadian Science PolicyDrug PoliticsEpidemics & PandemicsGeriatric HealthHealthcare PoliticsScience
Up to 50% of antibiotics mis-prescribed
CMAJ Jan 17 2017 Antibiotic overprescribing a growing problem Antibiotic overprescribing a growing problem