This is the story of how a team, assembled during the pandemic, recognized the mechanism by which these viruses were causing lung injury and lowering oxygen levels in patients.
Immigrants and racialized people were most likely to report that they didn’t have insurance to cover the cost of prescription medications in the past year, and to report that the pandemic affected their coverage.
Dr. Luc Boileau said today that the province is strongly recommending that people stay home when sick and wear a mask as soon as flu-like symptoms appear.
Pharmacist Anna Patriziom, the owner of Schomberg Village Pharmacy, has won a Most Influential Filipina Woman in the World Award from the Foundation for Filipina Women's Network.
For many years pharmacists have been known as the “pill counters” or “druggists” hidden behind the pharmacy counter, but the truth is pharmacists are a lot more than that and have proven so throughout the pandemic.
Pharmacists across Canada fill more than 600 million prescriptions every year, and though somewhat rare, medication incidents do occur. When COVID-19 hit, it put unprecedented pressure on the industry.
