ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

• 5/29/2023

  CPSA removes ‘accepting new patients’ designation from physician directory

  The tool recently changed names from ‘Find a Physician’ to the new ‘Physician Directory,’ which otherwise includes the same info as its previous iteration.
• 5/29/2023

  Sick workers tied to 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks, CDC say

  Norovirus and salmonella, germs that can cause severe illness, were the most common cause of 800 outbreaks, which encompassed 875 restaurants and were reported by 25 state and local health departments.
• 5/29/2023

  What groundbreaking advancements can AI tools bring to the field of healthcare?

  As pharmacists, we are cautious by nature, and recent concerns surrounding this new technology are certainly valid: Who gets to decide who controls the information that is being provided? How do we protect patient confidentiality if an AI tool is using patient data? How do we ensure that patients are receiving the right information and not being led astray by someone who has created a language model that provides misinformation?
• 5/29/2023

  Ruling clears way for Purdue Pharma to settle opioid claims, protect Sacklers from lawsuits

  Under the plan, members of the Sackler family would give up ownership of Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue, which would become a new company known as Knoa, with its profits being used to fight the opioid crisis.
• 5/29/2023

  In B.C., Alberta and around the world, forcing drug users into treatment is a violent policy

  Intervention without human rights goes by many names—involuntary institutionalization, compulsory drug treatment, “coerced care,” forced abstinence or a combination of all of those terms.
• 5/29/2023

  Pregnant people should be especially vigilant when wildfires pollute the air: doctor

  Dr. Wee-Shian Chan, head of medicine at BC Women’s Hospital, said breathing in pollutants and toxic gases generated by forest fires takes particulate matter into the bloodstream and lungs, making it harder to breathe.
• 5/28/2023

  Doctor’s supporters, hospital at odds with Indiana penalty for talking about 10 year old’s abortion

  The board’s vote late Thursday to issue a letter of reprimand against Dr. Caitlin Bernard won’t limit her ability to practice medicine in the state, and the hospital system where she works said it stood by its finding that she followed privacy rules.
• 5/28/2023

  Central Vancouver Island to get cancer centre at Nanaimo hospital, says B.C. premier

  The centre will be located at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
• 5/28/2023

  Ontario hospitals prepare and brace for summer ER staffing challenges

  Staffing shortages led hospitals to close their emergency departments for hours or even days at a time during the summer of 2022.
• 5/28/2023

  Healthcare advocacy groups want provinces to seek anti-smoking measures in Big Tobacco settlement

  Lawsuits by all 10 provinces, with British Columbia filing the first one in 1998, are against Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc., and JTI-Macdonald Corp., as well as their foreign parent corporations.