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- 10/7/2020
Health Canada consultation shows various opinions on cannabis health products
Results from Health Canada’s consultation for feedback about sales, manufacturing and interest in buying cannabis health products (CHPs) shows support from consumers and industry for making the products over-the-counter (OTC) and available without additional practitioner oversight. - 10/7/2020
Health Canada examines safety of inflammatory bowel disease drug mesalazine in pregnancy
Safety review could not confirm a link between the use of mesalazine (5-ASA) during pregnancy and birth defects in babies. - 10/7/2020
Apple users can now access health records from three GTA hospitals through their iPhone
Health records from three Ontario hospitals—Women's College, St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton and Mackenzie Health in Richmond Hill—are the first to make this feature available to their patients as of Wednesday Oct. 7. Other health-care institutions across Canada that offer electronic records can sign on as well, according to Apple. - 10/7/2020
Montreal doctors call for more family physician permits
Quebec's health ministry recently stated it intends to issue 98 family doctor permits for 2021, comparable to this year. - 10/7/2020
FPs as frazzled as their patients during pandemic
Family medicine is in a state of crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic which, eight months in, has totally disrupted primary care physicians’ ability to provide face-to-face, quality care. Things are so bad that while governments are urging everyone to get a flu shot to avoid a “twindemic” many have expressed their confusion about finding out where to get that shot, just days away from the time when people typically start getting them. - 10/7/2020
Hospital CEO speaks out after nooses again found at hospital construction site
Sarah Downey, president and CEO at Michael Garron Hospital, has written a letter to EllisDon's CEO after a third incidence of anti-Black racism took place on the EllisDon construction site in a four-month period. The incidents happened on the site where a hospital extension is being built at the Michael Garron Hospital in East York, a suburb of Toronto. - 10/7/2020
Quebec doctor calls on peers to confront systemic racism
Last week, Quebec's government ordered an inquiry into the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman from Manawan who recorded workers at the Centre hospitalier de Lanaudière in Joliette mocking her with sexist and racist abuse soon before she died.