pulse therapy | pulse dosing | intermittent dosing

Food and Drug Administration | United States Food and Drug Administration | US Food and Drug Administration | FDA [Abbr.] | US FDA [Abbr.]

Drug-delivery iontophoresis system, reusable

Drug-delivery iontophoresis patch

Giving medication

fetal distress in labour or delivery due to drug administration

Management Board of the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products

second-line use

drug delivery system | DDS

ultrasound transdermal drug delivery system

12. Notes that the Chair, Executive Director and the members of the Board of Supervisors and Management Boards should be in a position to act independently, objectively and in the interest of the Union as a whole; considers that compulsory contributions of the competent authorities of the Member States could conflict with the independence of the ESAs; believes that the current financing arrangements of the ESAs based on a mixed and nationally oriented financing system have not been fully utilised and do not allow enough flexibility for periods of high short term need that will not be necessary on an on-going basis which would be best f ...[+++]illed by seconded national experts;

You can prevent that by administering intermittent doses of an anti-retroviral called nevirapine during the third trimester of pregnancy.

(Return tabled) Question No. 135 Hon. John McKay: With respect to access and compensation for medically necessary drugs and treatments that are not covered by provincial drug programs due to the fact that they are not approved by Health Canada: (a) what action has Health Canada taken to ensure that any drugs or medication that have been approved for treatment of a specific illness in one province are then approved for treatment in the rest of the provinces; (b) what steps has Health Canada taken to ensure that those who had to independently pay for their own medically necessary medication as a result of the drug being used off label, or ...[+++] the result of the drug not having been approved by Health Canada for use in general or in a particular illness, or are used in an unconventional manner and are therefore not qualifying for conventional insurance regulations are then compensated for these costs, or have the treatment subsidized in some manner; (c) for Canadians suffering from rare medical conditions, what steps is Health Canada taking to ensure that (i) research in treatment for these conditions is being pursued, (ii) orphan drugs that have been developed and proven to be effective are being actively manufactured, (iii) drugs that have been developed are being actively approved by Health Canada, (iv) legislation is being introduced to guarantee the continuation of these practices; and (d) has Health Canada or the government investigated the creation of a National Drug Program or plan which would allow equal access to medications for all Canadians, regardless of the province that they reside in?

[Text] Question No. 26 Mr. John Cummins: With regard to the risk management of the antimalarial drug mefloquine by Health Canada and the Department of National Defence: (a) what deployments since 1990 involved administration of the drug to members of the Canadian Forces; (b) did Health Canada receive from the Canadian Forces adverse drug event reports for each such deployment either during or immediately following deployment; (c) how many Canadians received the drug under Health Canada’s Lariam Safety Monitoring Study; (d) how many patients were the subject of monitoring reports received by Health Canada directly or indirectly from Ro ...[+++]che under the Lariam Safety Monitoring Study; (e) what types of adverse events were identified by the Lariam Safety Monitoring Study up to the time the drug was licensed in 1993; (f) what is the total number of adverse events reported to Health Canada since the commencement of marketing in 1993; (g) how many adverse events were reported to Health Canada since the commencement of the marketing of the drug in 1993 involving each of the following reactions - hallucinations, panic reaction, hyper alertness, extreme excitability, convulsions, aggressive reaction, marked restlessness, suicide, suicidal tendency, suicide attempt, thoughts of self harm, abnormal dreams, emotional disorder, irritability, nightmares, abnormal thinking, anxiety, depressed state, aggravated depression, light-headedness, anxiety attack, mood swings, abnormal crying, psychosis, delusion, speech disorder, concentration impaired, fear, euphoria, hysteria, paranoid psychosis, memory impairment, emotional disorder, murder; (h) what measures have been taken by Health Canada to ensure that it receives notice of such adverse drug events from doctors administering the drug; (i) what changes to the product monograph have been approved by Health Canada since licensing of the drug in 1993; (j) how many Canadian Forces members deployed on special missions abroad since 1 ...