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- 9/26/2023
CAPSI puts a call out for National Mentorship Program
CAPSI is asking for applications for its National Mentorship Program, which connects pharmacy students with higher-year students and professionals in the field. - 9/21/2023
Semaglutide eliminated the need for insulin in 70% of patients with newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes: study
"If these findings are borne out in larger studies over extended follow-up periods, it could possibly be the most dramatic change in treating Type 1 diabetes since the discovery of insulin in 1921,” says the lead author of the study. - 9/19/2023
Health Canada approves BIOFIRE Joint Infection Panel
The panel can diagnose the cause of infections in under 60 minutes. - 9/18/2023
Clearing up the confusion: Manitoba wants doctors to know more about pharmacists’ rules
The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Manitoba wants doctors to better understand what pharmacists can and can’t do under federal regulations. - 9/18/2023
University of Toronto’s new program teaches pharmacists how to be leaders
The one-week intensive filled up in under a minute after it opened. “It was like a Taylor Swift concert,” jokes Zubin Austin, director of the Centre for Practice Excellence at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. - 9/17/2023
Pharmacy students deserve two days of bereavement leave: CAPSI
Current practices are different across the country and can be discriminatory, the group says. - 9/17/2023
Should national pharmacare be inspired by P.E.I.’s new drug agreement?
Lobbyists are saying the provincial system is a better fix than national single-payer pharmacare. - 9/17/2023
ISMP offers free Med Safety Exchange webinar
The webinar, which happens on September 20, is part of the WHO World Patient Safety Day initiative. - 9/7/2023
More than half of U.S. dog owners have vaccine hesitancy around their pets
About 37% of dog owners thought canine vaccination could make their dogs develop autism, despite the fact that there is no data behind that idea and that the link between vaccines and autism has been thoroughly researched and debunked in humans. - 9/6/2023
Medzy and Segic partner to offer online pharmacy services through Segic's Benefits Marketplace
Through the Marketplace, Segic’s clients can get medication management and monitoring, virtual consultations with pharmacists and free medication delivery across Quebec from pharmacists affiliated with Medzy.