Podcasts about vanessa's law

In this podcast, we hear from two experts who are calling on the Canadian minister of health to recall high-strength opioid formulations from the Canadian market. They explain why it might be time to consider using Vanessa's Law, which empowers the minister of health to recall a drug when he or she “believes that a therapeutic product presents a serious or imminent risk of injury to health.” Prof. Matthew Herder is the Director of the Health Law Institute and Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. David Juurlink is staff internist and head of the division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. They co-wrote a commentary article published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Full commentary article (subscription required): www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.181289 ----------------------------------- Subscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Overcast, Instacast, or your favourite aggregator. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.

Chris Lynch was joined in studio by David Carmichael who took the life of his 11-year-old son Ian on July 31, 2004 in a London, Canada hotel room, three weeks after being on the antidepressant Paxil (Aropax). He was charged with first degree murder. In September 2005, he was judged to be not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder which was diagnosed by forensic psychiatrists as major depression with psychotic episodes. David received an absolute discharge from Brockville Mental Health Centre in December 2009.David is currently the executive director of Canadians for Vanessa's Law and in Christchurch as a speaker for the 'Mental Health in Crisis' conference. 

Chris Lynch was joined in studio by David Carmichael who took the life of his 11-year-old son Ian on July 31, 2004 in a London, Canada hotel room, three weeks after being on the antidepressant Paxil (Aropax). He was charged with first degree murder. In September 2005, he was judged to be not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder which was diagnosed by forensic psychiatrists as major depression with psychotic episodes. David received an absolute discharge from Brockville Mental Health Centre in December 2009.David is currently the executive director of Canadians for Vanessa's Law and in Christchurch as a speaker for the 'Mental Health in Crisis' conference. 

Dr. Kirsten Patrick, deputy editor for CMAJ, interviews Dr. Corinne Hohl, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia and scientist at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation in Vancouver. Currently, Bill C-17 (Vanessa's Law) does not require health care providers to document serious adverse drug reactions, but mandates that health care institutions report all documented serious reactions. Documentation rates are currently very low and, unless documentation of adverse events improves, the potential of the law to do good will be small, say Hohl and colleagues in a commentary published in CMAJ. Published May 4, 2015, doi: 10.1503/cmaj.150057. Full article (subscription required): http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2015/05/04/cmaj.150057

All four panelists are back together to celebrate 300 episodes of The Reality Check!  Pat starts us off with a look a Vanessa's Law.   Adam then takes us through some mistakes that were made in the last 100 episodes.   Darren gives us a light-hearted segment about bad student writing and the show closes with a look at the panelists' favourite and least favourite segments..