ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

• 4/10/2023

  Keeping pace with contraception: a practical refresher for pharmacists

  The rapidly expanding scope of pharmacists continues to provide new opportunities for pharmacy teams to deliver accessible and timely care for Canadians. One area where our role is quickly changing is in the prescribing of contraceptives, where pharmacy scope has gradually expanded to several provinces.
• 4/10/2023

  Meet Michael Boivin: Pharmacy CE educator and consultant

  If you've taken an accredited program for pharmacists in the last 10 years, there's a chance Michael Boivin created it.
• 4/10/2023

  Parents frustrated as Saskatchewan’s only child gastroenterologist leaving province

  Krista Reid’s son has been at the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in Saskatoon for more than a week dealing with stomach problems that she says doctors are unable to diagnose.
• 4/10/2023

  Ontario nurses eye B.C.’s plan to cap nurse to patient ratio, ease workload

  Angela Preocanin, who was among dozens of rain-soaked nurses who gathered near Queen’s Park this week to protest “unsafe working conditions,” said she would not be surprised if Ontario lost nurses to British Columbia.
• 4/10/2023

  ‘A hell of a choice’: Patients left frustrated amid delays to access assisted dying

  John Scully has been living with a major depressive disorder diagnosis for four decades, and despite trying nearly every treatment known to medicine, from shock therapy to trans-magnetic stimulation, his condition has not improved.
• 4/10/2023

  What if we didn't lose the doctors we trained?

  Instead of going to war with doctors, how about politicians focus on meaningful solutions to retain the physicians we train, says Dr. Sohail Gandhi.
• 4/10/2023

  U.K. junior doctors begin 4-day strike, seeking hefty pay hike

  Junior doctors—those in the first years of their careers—make up almost half of all NHS doctors.
• 4/10/2023

  Doctor behind cross border rush for Ozempic in B.C. is suspended in Nova Scotia

  The Nova Scotia college heard “serious concerns” from B.C.’s College of Pharmacists about the doctor, who lives in the U.S. but is licensed in Nova Scotia as a non-resident.
• 4/5/2023

  Alcohol consumption to prevent dementia?

  Drinking one or two glasses of alcohol a day could prevent dementia while drinking three or more could increase risk, study shows.
• 4/5/2023

  Bird flu FAQ: What is it? How is it transmitted to humans? What are the symptoms?

  In Canada and the U.S., outbreaks of H5N1 influenza in domestic and wild birds have been reported in most regions.