By: Donovan Martin Sr, Editor in Chief For years, Canadians have lived within a medical framework that assumes synthetic drugs are backed by complete, comprehensive scientific disclosure. Most people believe that if a drug reaches the pharmacy shelf, then every failure, every negative outcome, every abandoned formulation has been carefully examined and fully shared with Health Canada. In practice, the system is far more selective. Health Canada receives detailed data about the specific formulation seeking approval, not the entire constellation of past experiments that shaped it. Pharmaceut