Tag Archives: Health Canada
Suckers and Quacks: The Canadian Homeopathy Debate
Samantha Copeland suggests that name-calling is not the best way to change people’s minds about homeopathy.
Health Canada and RU-486: No More Foot-Dragging!
Melissa Haussman suggests that Health Canada’s recent deliberations on the licensing of RU-486 are reminiscent of foot-dragging politics in the US.
Wishing Doesn’t Make It So
Françoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie comment on the first prosecution under the Assisted Human Reproduction Act and criticize Health Canada for its ongoing failure (since 2004) to draft the regulations on reimbursement of receipted expenses.
Policy Laundering and payment-for-plasma
Matthew Herder and Françoise Baylis assert there is no evidence for the need of paid plasma donations in Canada.
For-profit plasma clinics are risky business
Monika Dutt counsels Health Canada against changing its policy, and allowing payment to donors for blood or plasma.
Impact Ethics 