Posts Tagged ‘adverse events’

On November 6, 2014, Canada passed Vanessa’s Law, a new piece of legislation designed to protect patients from unsafe drugs and medical devices. The law comes after many complaints from citizens that the country wasn’t doing enough to oversee the safety of products sold in the marketplace or the clinical trials being conducted in the […]

What do our pharmaceutical product advertisements indicate about our national ideals, given the myriad of advertisements seen on the Internet, TV, in magazines, or heard on the radio here in the United States? Interestingly, the United States and New Zealand are the only developed nations that allow direct -to-consumer (DTC) advertising (Liang & Mackey, 2011). […]

While big data is a catchy buzzword and many race to offer their own definition of it, many still struggle to understand what it really means and question its real value. According to a recent survey conducted by Talend, only 10% of respondents were engaged in a large scale big data implementation project, while 36% […]