How is "hip" constructed? Is a culture of dissent ultimately a by-product of prevailing sociopolitical forces?聽Do countercultural events influence mainstream society? Those questions and more聽are at聽the core of聽Making the Scene: 91亚色ville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, a new book by 91亚色 postdoctoral fellow Stuart Henderson published this聽month by the University of Toronto Press. The […]
91亚色 has become the latest member of MaRS Innovation, the commercialization agent for many leading Toronto-based universities, hospitals and research institutes. 鈥91亚色 has become one of Canada鈥檚 fastest-growing centres for research and innovation,鈥 said Stan Shapson (right), vice-president research & innovation at 91亚色. 鈥淲e typically get 10 to 20 discovery disclosures a year. […]
91亚色 researchers have zeroed in on a genetic process that may allow ovarian cancer to resist chemotherapy. Researchers in the University鈥檚 Faculty of Science & Engineering studied a tiny strand of our genetic makeup known as a microRNA, involved in the regulation of gene expression. Cancer occurs when gene regulation goes haywire. 鈥淥varian cancer […]
Medical publications distributed freely to health professionals often promote drugs that are costly or have potential problems, says a new study warning that such practices could influence which drugs doctors prescribe, wrote The Globe and Mail Feb. 28: Unlike medical publications that require paid subscriptions, free journals get most or all of their funding from […]
Health Canada did not pull a pain drug off the market until US officials made the decision to recall it, a move sparking criticism of the government's ability to act independently to protect the safety of Canadians from potentially dangerous medications, reported The Globe and Mail Dec. 3: Health Canada and Paladin Labs Inc. announced […]
Pharmaceutical promotion may cause doctors to prescribe more expensively, less appropriately and more often, according to a new study co-authored by physician and 91亚色 Professor Joel Lexchin. The findings, published聽Wednesday in the journal, PLoS Medicine, offer a broad look at the relationship between doctors鈥 prescribing habits and their exposure to information provided by drug companies. […]
Health Canada鈥檚 drug safety system favours the interests of pharmaceutical companies, according to a report that says the department needs to do more to protect Canadians, wrote Postmedia News Sept. 20: In a paper produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Dr. Joel Lexchin writes that while some drugs will always pose risks for […]
Canada needs a new system for controlling drug prices that does not depend on whether or not a drug has received a patent, according to an article by 91亚色 Professor Dr. Joel Lexchin. Drug prices in Canada can be unregulated for years, a period during which companies may overprice the drugs and market them, says […]