Reading Time: 3 minutes Seniors are particularly vulnerable to the effects of too many prescriptions
Author: Alan Cassels
Alan Cassels is a drug policy researcher affiliated with the School of Health Information Sciences at the University of Victoria. He has worked on a variety of research and evaluation studies for the past ten years focusing on the impact of provincial drug benefits policies on consumers and has specialized in examining how clinical research information and experience on drugs gets communicated to policy-makers, prescribers and consumers.
Fight the deadly opioid epidemic at its roots
Reading Time: 3 minutes A firewall has to be built between pharmaceutical companies and physician training programs
Health Minister must reinstate funding for Cochrane Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Funding was terminated for Cochrane Canada, part of the key global health care resource Cochrane Collaboration, in September
Waiting for new pharmaceutical approvals the right approach
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why Canada’s ‘slow and low’ approach is the prudent one to take
Think twice before institutionalizing national pharmacare
Reading Time: 3 minutes Any national pharmacare program would need an absolute firewall to protect it from the inevitable politics of drug coverage
The truth behind breast cancer screening claims
Reading Time: 4 minutes Misinformation about breast cancer screening still a problem
Canadian employers waste $5B a year on inefficient drug coverage
Reading Time: 3 minutes Money would be better spent on increasing salaries and improving other benefits such as dental care