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MedShort.ca
Last updated 2026-09-05 · benchmark measured 2026-10-25 — deterministic & reproducible
Canadian drug shortage tracker covering active, anticipated, and resolved medication shortages.
MedShort.ca at a glance
MedShort.ca is a Canadian website that lets patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals search medication shortage and discontinuation status by name or DIN, using data sourced from Health Canada.
Good for
- Checking whether a specific medication currently has a shortage in Canada
- Following a medication and getting an email when its shortage status changes
- Browsing critical (Tier 3) shortages or shortages by province
Questions people ask
Is MedShort.ca an official Health Canada tool?
No, it is an independent, unofficial tracking tool that sources shortage and discontinuation data from Health Canada via healthproductshortages.ca and is not affiliated with Health Canada.
How do I check if my medication is in shortage?
You can search for any medication by name or DIN on the homepage, and results appear automatically as you type.
Can I get notified if a drug's shortage status changes?
Yes, you can sign in, tap the heart icon on a drug to follow it, and you'll receive an email when the daily check detects a status change.
What kinds of shortages does the site track?
It tracks active, anticipated, and resolved shortages, including a tier categorization that identifies critical (Tier 3) shortages.
Can I browse shortages by location?
Yes, the site allows browsing of drug shortages by province.
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Legit.Show scored MedShort.ca 93/100 on 2026-10-25, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/medshort-ca/2026-10-25
Is MedShort.ca production-ready?
Legit.Show scores MedShort.ca 93 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on MedShort.ca (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 89/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 100/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
- Privacy — 75/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 514 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who it's for
Patients · Pharmacists · Healthcare professionals · Caregivers
Sources and updates
- Description
- Taken from medshort.ca's own website on 2026-09-05.
- Benchmark
- Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-25.
Put together from public information, without MedShort.ca's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
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