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• 1/30/2023

  ‘Dangerous’ to think B.C.’s decriminalization plan will reduce OD deaths: researcher

  Users will not be arrested or have their drugs seized by police starting Tuesday in what is a three-year pilot project.
• 1/30/2023

  Doctor gets nearly 17 years in prison for vast opioid scheme

  Dr. Frank Patino’s fraud lasted years and was one of the most egregious healthcare schemes in U.S. history, prosecutors said.
• 1/30/2023

  Pharmacy U presenters Pavithra Ravinatarajan and Siva Sivapalan: The pharmacist’s role with GLP-1s in the treatment of diabetes

  Diabetes is a condition that impacts over 3 million Canadians. That is approximately 8.8% of the population, further, it is estimated that 6.1% of the Canadian adult population are at high risk of developing diabetes.
• 1/29/2023

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith opposes assisted dying expansion as Ottawa eyes delay

  An update to assisted-dying law passed in 2021 included a two-year sunset clause that would see the expansion take effect this March.
• 1/29/2023

  Ontario hospital nurses start contract talks, plan 'escalating actions'

  The nurses, and other broader public sector workers, have been subject for three years to a wage restraint law known as Bill 124, which capped increases at 1% a year.
• 1/29/2023

  Doctors say surgical training, delayed by the pandemic, continues to be affected

  Far from looking forward to entering the workforce, some newly graduated surgeons say they are worried and frustrated about backlogs that have put operations on hold.
• 1/29/2023

  What to know about B.C. decriminalizing possession of drugs for personal use

  The pilot project will continue until Jan. 31, 2026, after a federal exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
• 1/29/2023

  Ontario launches fee code for treating patients with long COVID

  In a bulletin to all physicians a few days prior, the Ministry of Health said long COVID “has emerged as a complex and multisystem disease that is anticipated to require multidisciplinary management and treatment across the continuum of care.”
• 1/29/2023

  NDP to call for emergency debate in House of Commons over private healthcare

  Singh says healthcare is already understaffed and he believes for-profit facilities will poach doctors and nurses away from hospitals.
• 1/29/2023

  WHO decides the COVID-19 global emergency isn't over

  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the international body, said Monday “there is no doubt that we’re in a far better situation now” than a year ago, when the highly transmissible Omicron variant was at its peak.