The Case for Rational Drug Policies
“Ottawa’s new approach is to criminalize what should still be seen as a health issue,” says Cathy McIsaac, executive director of Direction 180, a methadone clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia. …
No money. No targets. No consensus on controversial issues such as guaranteeing access to affordable drugs, stiffened measures against the tobacco and alcohol industries, and regulations to curb international trade …
While several provinces have built centralized drug information systems that theoretically allow e-prescribing, there are few doctors in Canada who are electronically transmitting prescriptions to pharmacies.
The federal government’s oversight of antimicrobial resistance is sorely plagued by deficiencies, according to a draft report prepared by officials at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The internal …
Industry forecasts indicate that Canadians will soon face a marketing avalanche to persuade them to purchase personal genetic test kits. But while American officials are moving to regulate do-it-yourself genetic …
Fifteen months after the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) terminated its national committee dedicated to tackling antibiotic resistance, the federal government continues to resist calls for a new national …
Microbiologists are urging that Canada ramp up its surveillance of another strain of bacteria — carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC) — by screening Canadians who’ve been hospitalized in the United States, Israel and …
The World Health Organization (WHO) and public health agencies around the world must significantly ramp up screening and surveillance of a new breed of drug-resistant bacteria carrying the gene for …
In the “AIDS exceptionalism” debate, emotions run high, and the options are difficult: Shift some AIDS funding to other care, or find billions in new support.