Licensing

New deal includes no increases in first three years with hikes at back end

P.E.I.’s health minister, Doug Currie, plans to table new legislation on Friday to address the alarming increase in the prescribing and dispensing of narcotic pain killers.

Shrinking council, adding term limits and dropping sections up for vote in early May

The president of the Ontario college, Dr. Eric Stanton, on why he ran for council— and how it changed his view of the college

College to push for ban on inducements for both drugs and professional pharmacy services.

Temporary solution found to eliminate a jurisdictional grey area that may have contributed to over 1,200 patients receiving diluted chemotherapy drugs.

It was an alert Ontario pharmacy technician who noticed a discrepancy in a chemotherapy mixture that led to the discovery: diluted chemotherapy medication had been administered to more than 1,200 cancer patients in four hospitals in Ontario and one in New Brunswick.