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- 7/7/2020
Experts outline key steps for hospitals to welcome back family caregivers during COVID-19
The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement released a new report that outlines key steps and resources for hospitals to welcome back family caregivers. The report, Re-Integration of Family Caregivers as Essential Partners in Care in a Time of COVID-19, was developed with experts from across the country including patient, family and caregiver partners. - 7/7/2020
Community pharmacy staff are the overlooked frontline workers
'Do we really have to prove that we’re frontline workers' - 7/7/2020
Alberta pilot has pharmacists testing asymptomatic people for COVID-19
Minor ailment authority for strep throat prepared pharmacists for COVID-19 throat swab testing procedure - 7/6/2020
Hundreds of doctors call on Ontario to reverse guidance on COVID-19 patients returning to work
Dr. David Williams said the asymptomatic screening protocol doesn't apply to the current outbreak among migrant farm workers - 7/6/2020
'Divine event:' Surgeon who helped man after hike operates on him days later
A Saskatchewan man who had a heart attack after a hike in the Rocky Mountains says it was divine intervention that the same cardiac surgeon who helped resuscitate him near the trail would operate on him days later. Darrell Parker, his wife, Shirley, and their son and daughter-in-law were hiking on June 20 at Grassi Lakes, a popular trail near Canmore, Alta. - 7/6/2020
New evidence supports prescribing statins for primary prevention of CVD in the elderly
New statin use lowers risk of all-cause and CV mortality in US veterans (75+ years) without atherosclerotic CVD at baseline