Healthy Skepticism Library item: 2258

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Publication type: media release

Health Canada launches MedEffect on its new website
Health Canada 2005 Aug 18
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/index_e.html

Keywords:
MedEffect

Notes:

Ralph Faggotter’s Comments: Historically, doctors have rarely reported the adverse effects of medication which their patients have reported to them.
Canada’s MedEffect is a great idea- promoting the reporting of adverse effects of medications and more particularly, making the process of reporting easy.

Full text:

Health Canada launches MedEffect on its new website

Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh announced the launch of MedEffect, a
website that will provide centralized access to relevant and reliable
health product safety information in an easy-to-find location. The new
website will also make it as simple as possible for consumers and health
professionals to complete and file reports of adverse reactions to drugs
and other products. A single click on the MedEffect icon helps visitors
quickly locate the latest information on warnings, recalls and
advisories, register for e-mail notices, obtain the Canadian Adverse
Reaction Newsletter, and search the Canadian Adverse Reaction database.
For more information, please visit
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/medeff/index_e.html