Posts in category Canadian Science Policy
Tracking Canadian Science Policies
Addiction, Depression, Psychosis, SchizophreniaCanadian Science PolicyDrug PoliticsHealthcare Politics
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 …
Antibiotic ResistanceCanadian Science PolicyDiseases of NeglectDrug PoliticsEpidemics & PandemicsGeriatric HealthHealthcare Politics
Awaiting federal solutions to antimicrobial resistance threats
15 Years after Ottawa abandoned its antimicrobial resistance plan, action awaits
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
CIHR Critics Defend Face-to-Face Review
CMAJ April 3 2017 CIHR Critics Defend Face to Face Review
Addiction, Depression, Psychosis, SchizophreniaCanadian Science PolicyDrug PoliticsHealthcare in PrisonsHealthcare PoliticsHepatitis NeglectMedically-Induced Opioid Addiction
Solutions journalism: Calls mount for medically-safe heroin in Canada
Lancet Jan 20 2017 Calls for Medically Safe Heroin Mount in Canada
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
Antibiotic ResistanceCanadian Science PolicyDrug PoliticsEpidemics & PandemicsGlobal HealthInternational DevelopmentScience
Should Canada focus on Global Antimicrobial Resistance?
The Canadian Institutes for Health Research’s new global health research guru wants Ottawa to put antimicrobial resistance on its list of foreign-aid research priorities. 2016-cmaj-nov-28-2016-should-canada-focus-on-antimicrobial-resistance
Abiding Worries Over CIHR science reforms
CMAJ Oct 3 2016 Abiding-worries-over-federal-research
Access to Affordable MedicinesAddiction, Depression, Psychosis, SchizophreniaCanadian Science PolicyDrug PoliticsHealthcare Politics
Consensus on Canada’s national drug formulary: a step towards a national pharmacare solution?
CMAJ May 16 2016 Consensus Mounts for a National Drug Formulary