Your hosts this week are Lynn Desjardins, Wojtek Gwiazda, and Marc Montgomery
ListenDr Joel Lexchin is an emergency physician at The University Health Network and a Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto.
He is co-author of “Drugs of Choice: A Formulary for General Practice”, and author of “Drug Therapy for Emergency Physicians”
He recently gave a speech entitled, “”Those who Have the Gold, Make the Evidence: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Clinical Trials”.
In this excerpt of a longer conversation he explains why he is concerned about pharmaceutical companies’ tight control of data from clinical trials on their new drugs..
Measles was once a common childhood infection and most Canadians born before 1970 had the ailment and are immune for life. But since then a vaccine was introduced and now children routinely get two consecutive shots to protect them.
However, many parents for religious reasons or in the belief that it’s dangerous, do not have their children vaccinated.
s highly contagious. Droplets from coughing or even talking can hang in the air for two hours. It causes a spotty, itchy rash and fever. It can also cause diarrhea and pneumonia, and in rarer cases encephalitis and death. An average one to two cases per 1,000 are fatal.
Lynn speaks to Dr. Carolyn Pim of Ottawa Public Health about measles and why vaccinations are important
The federal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, Bernard Valcourt says he’s happy with the new effort to give greater control to Aboriginal groups over the education of their children
The bill-the First Nations Control of First Nations Education will do that, he says.
However, the bill is not being received by First Nations groups across the country with the same degree of enthusiasm.
There’s a wide range of opinions about the proposal. Some are already calling for a boycott of the Act.
Wojtek has a report.
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