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CBC News Online | February 17, 2004 (Updated July 22, 2005)


Canada

Canada's Adverse Reaction Database, made available through Health Canada's MedEffect site on May 25, 2005.

Subscribe to Health Canada's e-mail list, MedEffect e-Notice, to receive the department's health product advisories.

Health Canada's online Drug Product Database. It contains listings for every drug marketed in Canada, as well as those that have been taken off the market.

Health Canada's online information on how to report a suspected ADR.

Listing of Health Canada's ADR Reporting Centres

ADR Fact Sheets, from Health Canada

How Adverse Reaction Information on Health Products is Used, from Health Canada

Get the ADR report form online, from Health Canada


United States

Subscribe to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's e-mail list for drug safety

MedWatch, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's drug monitoring program

Online Medical Dictionary provided by MedLine Plus (a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the U.S. National Institutes of Health).


World Health Organization

WHO drug alerts

WHO Pharmaceuticals Newsletter

WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring


United Kingdom

Monitoring the safety of medicines, from the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)

Committee on Safety of Medicines, U.K. organization that monitors adverse drug reactions. It posts safety information and lists drugs it is watching closely, among other things.


Australia

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration


Historical and reference

Health Canada: Management of the Change Initiative at Health Protection Branch, from the 1995 Auditor General's Report

Response to the Recommendations to Health Canada of the Coroner's Jury Investigation into the Death of Vanessa Young, from Health Canada

Response to Recommendations to Health Canada of the Coroner's Jury into the Death of Ashley Marie Atkinson, from Health Canada

 















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    On Feb. 17, 2004, CBC.ca made available a searchable online version of Health Canada's adverse drug reaction information in Canada's Adverse Drug Reaction Database.

    CBC.ca took down its version of the database after Health Canada made the information publicly available online on May 25, 2005.

    Health Canada's searchable online version of the database and a downloadable data extract are available at
    the Canadian Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Program Adverse Reaction Database.