Subscribe to MedEffect e-Notice Health Product Advisories
Summary
Health Canada's MedEffect e-Notice subscription page allows healthcare professionals and consumers to receive free health product safety alerts, advisories, and recalls via email. Subscribers select their province or territory and preference for Drugs, Medical devices, Natural health products, and/or Vaccines. The Health Product InfoWatch monthly publication for healthcare professionals is included with subscription. Changing subscription details requires unsubscribing from the previous address and re-subscribing with the new address.
“MedEffect e-Notice is a free service that sends health product alerts right to your e-mail inbox.”
About this source
GovPing monitors Health Canada Drug News for new consumer protection regulatory changes. Every update since tracking began is archived, classified, and available as free RSS or email alerts — 3 changes logged to date.
What changed
This Health Canada page establishes the subscription mechanism for the MedEffect e-Notice email alert service, which disseminates post-market safety information for health products including drugs, medical devices, natural health products, and vaccines. The subscription form collects email address, province/territory, professional status, and product category preferences. The page also describes how to change or unsubscribe from the service.
Healthcare professionals and consumers who handle or use health products should consider subscribing to receive timely safety advisories and recalls directly to their inbox. The service provides the Health Product InfoWatch monthly publication intended primarily for healthcare professionals.
Archived snapshot
Apr 22, 2026GovPing captured this document from the original source. If the source has since changed or been removed, this is the text as it existed at that time.
Stay Informed Medeffect Canada
- MedEffect Canada Home Page
- Report an Adverse Reaction
- Learn About Adverse Reactions
- Adverse Reaction Database
- Canada Vigilance Program
- Reports and Publications
MedEffect Canada uses a variety of mechanisms to share information and to help you stay informed about advisories and recalls that are issued by Health Canada, as well as by Industry, for health products, such as pain relievers, cold medicines, prescription drugs, medical devices, vaccines and natural health products.
Having access to the latest safety information helps consumers and health professionals to make informed decisions about the safe use of health products.
MedEffect Canada RSS Feeds
Subscribe to MedEffect Canada RSS Feeds to be informed of new or updated information posted online from MedEffect Canada. Information you can receive includes, advisories and recalls; the Health Product InfoWatch; and MedEffect Canada Web site content updates.
MedEffect e-Notice
MedEffect e-Notice is a free service that sends health product alerts right to your e-mail inbox. Advisories and recalls are an important source of information regarding the post-market safety and effectiveness of health products.
As part of your MedEffect e-Notice subscription, you will also receive the Health Product InfoWatch, Health Canada's monthly publication intended primarily for healthcare professionals, and which provides clinically relevant safety information on pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices and natural health products.
-
- For more information, contact the Health Product InfoWatch Editorial Team.
Disclaimer:
This tool is provided as an information dissemination service only. Health Canada will not assume responsibility for any system failures or omissions of notifications.
Subscribe to MedEffect e-Notice
To subscribe to the MedEffect e-mail list, please enter your e-mail address below and click on the " Subscribe " button.
You will receive an e-mail confirmation from MedEffect e-Notice where you must click on the link to activate your e-Notice subscription.
Required fields are marked with an asterisk (*).
Your email: (required) Please identify your province or territory of residence. Select Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Nunavut Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon Outside of Canada Are you a healthcare professional? Yes No Preferred update(s) (required) Drugs Medical devices Naturalhealthproducts Vaccines Subscribe
Change your MedEffect e-Notice Subscription
Changing your MedEffectâ„¢ e-Notice e-mail requires unsubscribing under the previous e-mail address and re-subscribing with your new e-mail address.
Unsubscribe to MedEffect e-Notice
If you are already a subscriber and wish to unsubscribe, type in your e-mail address in the box below and select the " Unsubscribe " button.
Your email: (required) Submit
Page details
2025-01-31
Mentioned entities
Related changes
Get daily alerts for Health Canada Drug News
Daily digest delivered to your inbox.
Free. Unsubscribe anytime.
Source
About this page
Every important government, regulator, and court update from around the world. One place. Real-time. Free. Our mission
Source document text, dates, docket IDs, and authority are extracted directly from Health Canada.
The summary, classification, recommended actions, deadlines, and penalty information are AI-generated from the original text and may contain errors. Always verify against the source document.
Classification
Who this affects
Taxonomy
Browse Categories
Get alerts for this source
We'll email you when Health Canada Drug News publishes new changes.
Subscribed!
Optional. Filters your digest to exactly the updates that matter to you.