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Letter: Official wrongly knocks Canada

Wednesday, May 4, 2005 | 9:21 a.m.

I noted that in your state Legislature's debate on prescription drug reimportation from Canada, Assemblyman Garn Mabey, a medical doctor, said, "I cannot think of one medication discovered and developed in Canada."

I remind him that insulin was discovered in Toronto in 1921.

PAUL MCIVOR Toronto, Canada Editor's note: The writer works in the Drug Programs Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

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