The Alberta College of Pharmacy is asking pharmacists who are compounding infants’ and children’s acetaminophen to match commercial concentrations and packaging sizes to help prevent overdoses in children.
About 800 patients in 20 states were sickened with fungal meningitis or other infections and about 100 died in 2012 after receiving injections of medical steroids made at the now-closed compounding centre.
Primary care groups are organized so differently depending on the province. Here's a rundown of the options facing new doctors starting out in Ontario.