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Tag: Drugs
Why patients at the end of life may not be receiving the best care
Reading Time: 4 minutes Providing comfort care should be the first priority for those nearing the end
Deadly prescription opioid epidemic must be stopped
Reading Time: 3 minutes An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Canadians have died from opioids since 1995
Catastrophic pharmacare is a catastrophe
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why the provinces don’t need $3 billion in federal tax dollars for flawed prescription drug policies
When it comes to pharmacare, be careful what you wish for
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provincial governments are more interested in restricting access than in creating better programs
Pharmacare is for kids too
Reading Time: 4 minutes What do you do if your child is sick and you must decide between buying prescribed medicine or food?
Unknown effects from medications putting Canadian children at risk
Reading Time: 4 minutes A small effort could make a big difference in child drug safety
National drug plan idea filled with false assumptions
Reading Time: 3 minutes A national drug plan may simply end up subsidizing the drug consumption of people who don’t need subsidies
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
Why antibiotic resistance can be deadly
Reading Time: 3 minutes Antibiotic resistance is now a major global public health problem with serious societal costs