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- 9/5/2011
World group wants to make anaphylaxis everyone’s business
Guidelines expected to be especially useful in primary care - 9/5/2011
Ortho surgery is noisy business
Red Deer surgeon finds OR tools as noisy as those in his woodworking shop - 9/5/2011
Evidence strongest for epinephrine in anaphylaxis Rx
Second-line drugs need more study: Simons - 9/5/2011
Anti-TNF agents do not raise cancer risk in arthritis patients
Finding reassuring since class of drugs has mandated warning on labels about potential risk of cancer - 9/5/2011
New OMA work-stress program off to busy start
Dr. Michael Kaufmann, director of the Ontario Medical Association’s Physician Health Program (PHP), says that by 2008—over a decade after the PHP was created to deal with physicians’ mental health and addiction issues—he became so overwhelmed with requests, “I simply had to say I couldn’t do this anymore without help.” - 9/1/2011
New guidelines on anaphylaxis plug knowledge gap
Guidelines expected to be especially useful in primary care - 9/1/2011
Suicide: identifying and supporting patients in your practice
Suicide is one of the 10 leading causes of death in Canada. Some estimate that 90% of people who die by suicide are suffering from depression, another mental illness or a substance abuse disorder.(6) It is not unusual, therefore, for people who commit suicide to have been on medications and to have been interacting with a pharmacist.