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- 11/3/2021
Pharmacy Leader Kimberley Kallio: "Use your female intuition and compassion to really connect with patients."
Having been originally trained as an engineer, I was drawn to the idea of functional medicine where they employ a systems approach to health. We have a real problem with over-medication in our culture, and I believe a lot of it stems from our siloed view of the human body. - 11/2/2021
COVID-19 pandemic made hospitals more vulnerable to cyberattacks: security experts
Five realities that endanger hospital cybersecurity today. - 11/2/2021
Ford says no to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for hospital workers
He says the government looked at those responses and at "real-world evidence'' and has decided to stick with its current approach, which allows unvaccinated workers to regularly get tested. - 11/2/2021
4 docs not co-operating with investigations into COVID practices: CPSO
Ontario's medical regulator says it is turning to the courts in an effort to compel four physicians to co-operate with its investigations into their practices regarding COVID-19. - 11/2/2021
Pharmacy U presenter Carlene Oleksyn: How do we get patients to be more medication-compliant?
If we don’t involve patients in decisions about their own health, they will often make their own decisions, and it will be without the guidance of their healthcare professionals. - 11/2/2021
Health Canada reviewing AstraZeneca antibody drug to prevent symptomatic COVID-19
If approved, it would be the first antibody protection of its kind in Canada. - 11/2/2021
N.L. government confirms cyberattack took down health network, won't say what kind
During a media briefing today, Health Minister John Haggie wouldn't provide details on the type of the attack or whether data had been lost. - 11/2/2021
Some in Sask. successfully paid others to fraudulently get vaccine in their names: Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy Professionals
College registrar Jeana Wendel confirmed to CBC News that while the college doesn’t have exact statistics, it has confirmed incidences. - 11/2/2021
Ontario releases plan to eventually offer booster COVID-19 doses to everyone
There are 2.75 million people who will become eligible for boosters starting Nov. 6—those aged 70 and older, healthcare workers and essential caregivers in congregate settings, people who received two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine or one dose of Janssen, and First Nations, Inuit and Metis adults and their non-Indigenous household members.