1999 - 2000 Archive
Program #22
Age àRelated Macular Degeneration, or AMD, is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50. It affects about 130,000 Canadians. Until recently, there was little doctors could do to stop people from eventually going blind. But that's changed. A new proceedure is about to be approved in the United States and is showing good results in trials here in Canada. There are many promising treatments that are about to be approved by Health Canada. But a couple of disturbing cases in recent months have Canadians questioning the way drugs are approved, and the independence of the scientists studying them. Murray Elston is president of Rx & D, an Ottawa-based organization of brand-name drug makers and Dr. Miriam Shuchman teaches medical ethics at the State University of New York.
Your child is waking up complaining of an earache. She's miserable. And so are you. It's tempting to take her to the doctor and ask for a prescription, but according to pediatrician Dr. Stephen Moss, that's a misuse of antibiotics and the dangers are huge.
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