Government Delays in Approving New Medicines Harming Canadians

The Canadian government takes too long to lift its automatic ban on new medicines and evidence shows that the policy of automatically banning new medicines harms Canadians far more than it helps them, according to A Lethal Guardian: The Canadian Government's Ban on Prescription Drugs, released today by The Fraser Institute. "This automatic ban is harmful to Canadians' health and is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of Canadians annually, while many more Canadians suffer needlessly because the government prevents them from getting the medicines they require," said John R. Graham, author of the new study and an adjunct scholar at The Fraser Institute.

Canada NewsWire (http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2005/25/c9748.html)