Health Canada to increase transparency

Does Transparency Increase Executive Compensation ? ∗

I study the impact of changes in compensation disclosure on the level and structure of executive compensation. I exploit exogenous variation of compensation information among executives after a corporate governance reform in Germany in the late 2000s. The reform, for the first time in Germany, required firms to publicly disclose the individual compensation packages of key executives. Prior to t...

Public Decision Support - Using a Dss to Increase Democratic Transparency

We present a case study in which a decision support method (ADL) was employed by a local government in order to guide and aid decisions on three complicated and politically infected issues which had remained unresolved for many years. The research inquiry was whether a well-defined and openly accessible method would aid a common understanding of the decision problems, and whether people would b...

Canada-EU trade agreement expected to increase drug costs.

Canada lags on transparency of industry-doctor relationships.

Health Canada advisory on domperidone should I avoid prescribing domperidone to women to increase milk production [corrected]?

QUESTION I often prescribe domperidone to women as a galactagogue starting at a dose of 30 mg and increasing the dose as needed. In March of this year, Health Canada released an advisory warning of domperidone use and abnormal heart rhythms and sudden cardiac death. Should I cap doses at 30 mg or stop prescribing domperidone all together to these women? ANSWER The Health Canada warning is bas...