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- 5/31/2022
As a pharmacy leader, which should you be? Nice or kind?
Niceness is overrated. Be kind instead. Kindness is about having our hearts in the right place. It’s about wanting the best for others and for ourselves. It has nothing to do with being liked. - 5/31/2022
Healing the people, harming the planet?
In a new series, Aska Patel and Rajni Ratti look at the environmental impact of the healthcare sector and present some possible solutions. - 5/31/2022
Cancer groundshot: Access to proven treatments must parallel development of new therapies
Annually, billions of dollars are spent on ambitious “cancer moonshot” programs. These programs focus on the discovery of new drugs and technologies aimed at solving the cancer burden. - 5/31/2022
EnsembleIQ strengthens North American retail leadership, appoints business and consumer solutions innovator, Sandra Parente, senior vice-president, grocery and convenience Canada
EnsembleIQ is the parent company that runs the Medical Post and Pharmacy Practice + Business. - 5/31/2022
Health PEI reports privacy breach after laptop reported stolen in early April
The agency says the theft was reported to police the day after it was stolen, although it didn't provide a specific date. - 5/31/2022
Addressing childhood anxiety as early as kindergarten could reduce its harmful impacts
With colleagues, we undertook a population-wide study of kindergarten-age children attending public schools across Canada between 2004 and 2015. To our knowledge, this study provided the first Canada-wide snapshot of anxiety symptoms among children as they enter school. - 5/30/2022
Quebec to use HPV test to screen for cervical cancer, replacing Pap test
The Health Department says the province will systematically offer HPV testing for cervical cancer screening to all women aged 25 to 65, every five years. - 5/30/2022
Fish tales from the other side of the pond
You can liberate the fish, but as Dr. Gary Kinney explains, you can’t ensure they’ll survive the battle. - 5/30/2022
From Latin poetry to sham surgery: A history of placebos
Technically speaking, we have been using placebos for thousands of years. Ancient medicines and rituals practiced by earlier humans were often (at best) medically inert. The Ebers Papyrus (1500 B.C.) listed hundreds of prescriptions used in ancient Egypt, with modern study finding the vast majority to be “medically worthless.” Whether intentional or not, these were placebo interventions.