Tagged: Pharmaceuticals

The Data Divide: Managing the Misalignment in Canada’s Evidentiary Requirements for Drug Regulation and Funding

“The Data Divide: Managing the Misalignment in Canada’s Evidentiary Requirements for Drug Regulation and Funding” (with Patrick Dyke) (2011) – accepted by UBC Law Review. PR. 33 pages (in Word format) Canadian expenditure on pharmaceutical drugs is skyrocketing at a rate which outstrips every other major health care spending category. This is a product of many diverse factors, foremost of which is the glut of ‘me-too’ drugs which provide little or no...

Drug Promotion, Quality and Patient Safety

Presented opening remarks at the symposium on “Drug Promotion, Quality and Patient Safety”. The aim of the symposium was to provide researchers and policy-makers an opportunity to explore drug promotion regulation in terms of quality of information and impacts on patient safety. It also included discussion of the results of a comparative study examining the quality of information provided to primary care physicians by pharmaceutical sales representatives in the United States, France and Canada. November...