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- 10/14/2021
Nova Scotia to cover the cost of cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta
Last month, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan announced they would pay for the drug, which costs roughly $300,000 a year per patient. - 10/14/2021
More companies recalled lots of losartan tablets due to azido impurity
Earlier this year, several other companies made similar recalls. - 10/14/2021
N.L. doctors walk away from government contract negotiations, decry 'divide-and-conquer tactic'
Finance Minister Siobhan Coady said she wasn't expecting to see doctors announce they were walking away from contract negotiations Thursday, Oct. 14, but the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association says the government has not budged in 10 months. - 10/14/2021
Virtual session: Centre for Practice Excellence talks mental health and resilience in the pharmacy workforce
High levels of occupational stress are plaguing the pharmacy community today. - 10/14/2021
Nursing externship program at South Bruce-Grey Health Centre a success
The goals of the externship program, she said were that the program be sustainable, that it further opportunities to develop rural nursing, and that it enhance recruitment and retention. - 10/13/2021
Ontario government urges doctors to provide in person visits over virtual
A joint letter from the chief medical officer of health, a senior government bureaucrat and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario says COVID-19 should no longer pose a barrier to in-person practice. - 10/13/2021
Pharmacy Leader Amy Lamb: "Creating safe spaces for my patients to heal has been my primary goal."
Pharmacists have many hats, and your personal strengths and motivations help you leverage these diverse roles into meaningful careers. The role I will serve today may be vastly different from the role I serve next year, and certainly 10 years from now. The problems are endless, but the solutions, and subsequent opportunities for pharmacists, are as well. - 10/13/2021
Vaccinating Hamilton’s homeless, one block at a time
I overcame an entire lifetime of avoiding responsibility, moving on from any job when things stopped being fun, and allowed myself to be voted in as the lead physician of the Shelter Health Network Physicians Group. It will be a couple of hours a week they said, no big deal they said . . . - 10/13/2021
Solve my problem: How do you best balance teaching responsibilities with patient care and clinic admin work?
We asked physicians how they're able to make time for both of these key responsibilities. - 10/13/2021
Nova Scotia law would create protest buffer zones around healthcare facilities
The Progressive Conservative government says the Protecting Access to Health Services Act will also ban protests at the homes of patients who receive care where they live.