Drug trials should be sequestered and not carried out by those who wish to profit from them.

The marketing of pharmaceuticals should also be severely constrained.  it is interesting to note that press releases, newspaper articles and advertisements always show the relative ratio and not the absolute benefit, absolute risk and numbers needed to treat.  The relative ratio inflates benefit and when given alone does not give a complete picture of a drugs efficacy.  It would be easy for the government to mandate that full information be given on prescription monographs but I suppose the industry wouldn't tolerate that.

Health Canada has set a very low bar for approving pharmaceuticals; post approval follow-up is weak, and it is virtually impossible to find the absolute risk and the absolute benefit of any of the drugs listed on their site thus making informed prescribing difficult for both the medical professional and for the patient.