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Access to Medicines WeekTransparency in biomedical Research & Development can save lives. Universities guide a large portion of all clinical research done around the Canada.
If our trial results are never posted, what is the point of conducting them? Medicine can’t be evidence based if half of the evidence is missing. We need your help, sign our petition to help create change! Come talk to us at our booth from 9am -4pm to learn more! Monday Nov 5- UCC Basement Tuesday Nov 6- UCC Atrium Thursday Nov 8- Taylor Library |
Clubs Week at USC Mustang LoungeThank you for coming out to the USC Mustang Lounge in September! We hope you were able to learn more about UAEM Western. We encourage you to come out to our club events, meet our current UAEM members and ask questions about how you can get involved too!
Our 2018-2019 Executive Applications are now closed |
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Yellow Fever: Why Current Shortage of Vaccines Should 'Bug' YouYellow fever - a tropical acute viral hemorrhagic disease - is a substantial burden that nearly a billion people in the world are currently vulnerable to. The infection is currently endemic; however, the shortage of yellow fever vaccines is proving to be a major roadblock to mass vaccination initiatives in Nigeria and Brazil.
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America's Health Crisis: The Soaring Costs of CancerA harrowing fact was the subject of a recent study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology: the prices of life-saving injectable cancer treatments in America are increasing even faster than the rate of inflation.
The price of novel cancer drugs have more than doubled in the past decade, as they now cost on average $10, 000 per month, though some have reached more than $30, 000 per month. Old treatments have also skyrocketed in price - the average percent change in costs for cancer drugs over only an 8-year period was +25%. Read full post here |
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