I'm Not Back (yet...)!

Life can suck sometime...

I was hoping to get my PC up and running but ran into more snags and it's still down. Well, much has gone on with respect to news.

The Hamilton Spectator has done an awesome report on the potential conflict of interest of McMaster professors researching drugs in the department of health sciences that also work for pharmaceutical companies.

7 of the drugs that had their clinical trials conducted at McMaster with McMaster-Pharmacuetical industry researchers have been pulled from the Canadian market. 97 researchers at McMaster have the appearance of conflict of interest because they are also employed by the pharmaceutical companies. The Spec's investigative team found that McMaster did not have a transparent system that allowed them to access these relationships.

They had to find their information by researching a pharmaceutical company's website or by finding the listing of names of stock options.

Health Canada is investigating the connection of the use of drugs being prescribed for unapproved uses.

Stay tuned...