1999 - 2000 Archive
Program #26
Doing what comes naturally isn't working as well as it used to. About 250,000 Canadian couples trying to have a baby, can't. Reproductive technology has opened up a new frontier in medicine, but the treatments have a varied success rate. Here's a profile of two couples who are hoping science can help give them the family they want. The average Canadian senior takes six prescription drugs and three over-the-counter medications every day. Some of them are also taking an herbal remedy. And one in five will have to be hospitalized when their drugs don't get along. Even the antihistamene Seldane had to be taken off the shelves because of dangerous interactions.
Dr. Neil Shear is a pharmacologist and head of the Drug Safety Clinic at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. There's a lot of talk, both provincially and federally, about reforming healthcare -- especially primary healthcare. That means the way family doctors operate. Dr. Carolyn Bennett used to practise family medicine. Now she's a Liberal member of parliament. In her Second Opinion, the buck stops with the GP.
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