[news] Response to "Transparency in Drug Regulation: Mirage or Oasis? "

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CMAJ November 23, 2004; 171 (11). doi:10.1503/cmaj.1041446. Transparency in Drug Regulation: Mirage or Oasis? AND e-Letter Response by Diane C Gorman, Health Canada. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/171/11/1363 The reality which forms the base of the article by Joel Lexchin and Barbara Mintzes makes moot any Health care professional honour code. Because to prescribe medical intervention based upon beliefs (dogma) in the matter of efficacy and safety - instead of evidence (transparency and independent over-sight of all the facts) based upon objective science about same - is without authority, complementarity, justifiability, nor honesty in advertising/editorial policy BUT it has total confidentiality of/by/for/with the for-profit Health care industry. Specific to the "Mental Health" industry this would necessarily include professional, institutional, Federal/Provincial government and corporate (PhRMA).

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