Think of the children when reforming Canada’s drug approval system

By embedding children’s needs more explicitly within regulatory decision-making, we can ensure that medicines proven safe and effective in comparable jurisdictions can reach Canada’s kids faster.
The regulatory framework underpinning Canada’s drug approval system has not been designed to meet the unique needs of pediatric patients, write Charlotte Moore Hepburn and Catherine Litalien.

When your child is sick, only one thing matters: access to the right treatment, at the right time, in the right place. For many Canadian families, that certainty is out of reach—not because effective treatments do not exist, but because the regulatory framework underpinnin...

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