[News] Essential Medicine Lists

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epileric

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This is a great story that I hope provokes the Canadian (and other) government(s) to do something. Sometimes the media and the medical associations just get it right!

Drug shortages can be dangerous. At points over the past few years in Canada, children with controlled epilepsy seizures have had difficulty accessing vital medication, cancer patients have had their recommended chemotherapy treatment interrupted or stopped, and epinephrine auto-injectors used to treat anaphylactic allergic reactions have been in short supply.

In Monday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, a hematologist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., and her colleagues present a case for an essential medicines list for Canada.

How an essential medicines list could benefit Canadians
 
but...but that might involve government intervention in how drug companies do business...

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