ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 11/3/2020
So, you want to own a pharmacy, Part 5. What’s your niche?
Sometimes it can feel like an uphill battle to carve out a niche. Make sure your niche complements your pharmacy’s strengths and is sustainable. Your pharmacy is your passion. It’s important that what your practice does and stands for forms a key part of the community and is a reflection of you. - 11/3/2020
Manitoba health minister questions motivation behind doctors' letter on COVID-19
The letter, signed by 200 medical doctors and scientists, said the pandemic is spiraling out of control in Manitoba because case numbers have been rising and outbreaks have been occurring at long-term care homes. - 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. - 11/2/2020
National Advisory Committee on Immunization guidance identifies cohorts who should get COVID-19 vaccine priority
Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization has established its recommendations for vaccinating key populations in anticipation of the initial rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine. - 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
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
Researchers diagnose COVID-19 through AI-analyzed cough recordings
The researchers collected the COVID-19 cough recordings through a website between April and May 2020, analyzing more than 70,000 recordings from 5,320 subjects. - 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
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.