Canada’s Pharmacare Showdown: The Lancet Feb 24 2024
Canada’s Pharmacare Showdown – The Lancet Feb 24 2024
Posts in category Canadian Science Policy
Tracking Canadian Science Policies
Canada chokes cannabis science (Nature Medicine, April 22, 2021)
Nature Canadian Cannabis researchers protest April 22 2021
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500 Canadian cities declare climate emergencies (The Lancet, Jan 1, 2021)
The Lancet Jan 1 2021 Canadian Climate Action While Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial orders of government— many of which are deeply dependent on tax revenues from the world’s fifth …
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Canadian science under scrutiny – a series of 15 articles
1] 2014 CMAJ CIHR reforms contradict consultants 2] 2015 Feb 17 CMAJ CIHR modifies peer review reforms 3] 2015 Feb 17 CMAJ Peer Review Conflicts surface at CIHR 4] 2015 …
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Nature Medicine: Biomedical research during the COVID lockdown
Government-funded medical research bodies in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia say they are committed to maintaining funding continuity for biomedical research. So far, only in Canada has a major …
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The Lancet: Canada and COVID – learning from SARS?
In an exclusive interview with The Lancet, David Naylor, one of Canada’s leading experts on pandemic control, says Canada’s response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is vastly benefiting from the country’s …
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Urgent call for cannabis health research solutions
With the deadline for legalization of nonmedical marijuana approaching, scientists studying the health impacts of cannabis are calling on the federal government to implement a comprehensive research program. “Considerably more …
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Awaiting federal solutions to antimicrobial resistance threats
15 Years after Ottawa abandoned its antimicrobial resistance plan, action awaits