ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 11/2/2020
Canada approves first HIV self test in long awaited move to reduce screening barriers
The principal investigator of a study that was submitted to regulators as part of their review says the approval of HIV self-testing could "open incredible doors'' to increasing access to life-extending treatments and preventing the spread of infection in Canada. - 11/2/2020
The elegance of broken dishes
I get to thinking there's at least an opportunity, if not an explicit purpose, in our trajectory toward senescence. On bad days, it freaks me out and I enter my default existentialism that seems to have coloured most of my life, from frantically saving the dying insects on the surface of my childhood pool to contemplating the spirited air that must surround the hallways of our local hospice and its quiet lakeside dock. - 11/2/2020
Ketogenic medium chain triglyceride drink improves cognition in mild cognitive impairment
Already available in Europe, Nestlé aims to launch BrainXpert as a Natural Health Product in Canada in 2022. - 11/2/2020
Illeism or sillyism
Who would have thought that it might be good to talk about yourself in the third person? As if you weren’t you, but him? As if you weren’t actually there, and anyway, you didn’t want yourself to find out you were talking about him in case it seemed like, well, gossip? I mean, only royalty, or the personality-disordered, are able to talk like that without somebody phoning the police. - 11/2/2020
Quebec invests $100 million in mental health care following fatal sword attack
Junior health minister Lionel Carmant called the investment "unprecedented'' and said the announcement was moved ahead in response to the Halloween night attack that killed two people and injured five. - 11/2/2020
Life after pharmacy school, a new normal
- 11/2/2020
Quebec to begin training pharmacy technicians
Quebec is planning to join the rest of its provincial counterparts in regulating pharmacy technicians, beginning by offering technician accreditation programs at several Colleges in the province. - 11/1/2020
Federal government's reintroduced MAiD bill has doctors divided
Proposed legislation to amend Canada’s law on medical assistance in dying goes against the nature of medicine, which is to heal patients and alleviate suffering, says Dr. Ramona Coelho, a family physician in London, Ont. Dr. Coelho is among a group of physicians who wrote an open letter opposing Bill C-7. More than 800 Canadian doctors have now signed the letter. - 11/1/2020
New MediSystem location to open in Edmonton
Owned and operated by Shoppers Drug Mart, MediSystem pharmacies offer pharmaceutical dispensing and clinical pharmacy consulting services to the senior housing community and group home facilities.