Evidence Network

Making sure our prescription medications are safe and worth taking

By Jenna Wong and Robyn Tamblyn Comments Off on Making sure our prescription medications are safe and worth taking , , , , , , , ,

It’s time we stepped up our system of drug surveillance If you take prescription medications, what conditions do you take them for? Are they working for you? Have you experienced any negative side-effects from them? It may surprise you to know that answers to these critical health questions aren’t well documented for most Canadians. Yet […]

Canada needs a national drug surveillance system

By Jenna Wong and Robyn Tamblyn Comments Off on Canada needs a national drug surveillance system , , , , , , , ,

Interviews with Dr. Robyn Tamblyn and Dr. Jenna Wong Medications can be life-saving. But they are only as good as our knowledge about them. The time is right for a national drug surveillance system to kept better track of our experiences with medications. Jenna Wong recently received her PhD from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics […]