by Mefloquine Awareness | May 26, 2016
A report by British MPs recommends the British military use the anti-malaria drug mefloquine only as a ‘drug of last resort.’ Back in 1993, teenager Shidane Arone was beaten to death by Canadian soldiers on a peacekeeping mission to Somalia after he was found trying...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Feb 7, 2016
The federal government should recognize the anti-malaria drug mefloquine was not used safely in a trial during the fateful Somalia mission and address veteran concerns, a former top Health Canada bureaucrat says. The defence and health departments failed to do their...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Sep 12, 2013
Dr. Michèle Brill-Edwards is a pediatrician and clinical pharmacologist who in 1988 became Health Canada’s senior physician responsible for the regulation of clinical trials and market approvals of prescription drugs. In 1996 she resigned from Health Canada to...
by Mefloquine Awareness | May 20, 2006
Dr. Michele Brill-Edwards, former senior physician with Health Canada shares her first hand experiences with how Big Pharma influences and interferes with government regulators in their work to protect Canadians health. We caught up with Dr. Brill-Edwards during our...
by Mefloquine Awareness | Jan 3, 1998
Back in October, CTV’s W5 aired an intriguing item about mefloquine, the anti-malaria drug our soldiers took in Somalia – and still take in malaria-prone areas – which has side-effects that have caused the drug to be re-examined in other parts of the...
