Dosanjh slams doctors over on-line prescriptions
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VANCOUVER - Canada&#39;s health minister says doctors and pharmacists who give prescriptions to Americans without meeting them first are being unethical.
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Patients who want to see a GP in the evening should face a charge, some family doctors say.
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry
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A report last week tying the Type 2 diabetes pill Avandia to increased risk for heart attack and heart-related deaths prompted a flood of calls to local doctors and Internet postings from patients seeking advice about whether to continue taking the commonly prescribed medication.
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Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh warned in a speech at Harvard University on Wednesday that Canada cannot act as America&#39;s &quot;drugstore.
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BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -- A Canadian doctor who practices in Boynton Beach has been fined and reprimanded for signing prescriptions allowing US patients to receive Canadian drugs.
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OTTAWAâPolitical deadlock is looming over the coming first ministers&#39; health summit, with federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh stepping up his public criticism of the premiers&#39; proposal for a national pharmacare program.
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The panel is examining claims that GlaxoSmithKline tried to suppress a doctorâs criticism of its drug Avandia.
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Intensive-care doctors monitor patients from miles away. Also: Vioxx might be responsible for more deaths than thought.... New network in southern India gives government a big boost.... and more.
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The head of a leading mental health charity accuses the UK's medicines watchdog of not doing its job properly.
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Doctors and the government are at loggerhead over getting GPs to work in the evenings and weekends.
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Doctors are threatening an all-out attack on the government's NHS reforms, labelling it 'not fit for purpose'.
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TORONTO (CP) - A Toronto doctor accused of co-signing thousands of prescriptions without seeing patients changed his story several times under heated cross-examination at his disciplinary hearing Thursday.
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'If you sell illegal medicines, we will stop you' Healthcare regulators have raided a series of UK web businesses believed to be connected to the illegal offering of prescription drugs on the internet.â¦
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So-called 'polyclinics' should replace single-doctor surgeries, says health minister Lord Darzi.
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MPs, doctors and medical bodies have slammed offers of money to GPs for referring patients with compensation claims.
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Campaigners appeal against a decision they say is restricting doctors from prescribing osteoporosis drugs on the NHS.