Medication Management

A Saskatchewan doctor has been charged with unprofessional conduct after allegedly sending a fax to a pharmacy that disparaged homeless people and cancelled a patient’s prescription to punish the pharmacy for serving a local homeless encampment.

We all know it's happening—but are family physicians well-versed enough on the issues to help patients with opioid-use disorder?

A stockpile of drugs and investing in Canada’s pharmaceutical industry could fix Canada’s longstanding drug shortage problems, says Dr. Shoo Lee.

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Had Ontario pharmacy owner Mojgan Bijanzadeh been more diligent, she would have found out that the two Ontario-certified physicians named on the prescriptions no longer practised in the country and never authorized the drugs.

Often only seen in crisis, patients with gout can be cured with the right treatment and follow-up.

Concern over potential drug shortages arose after a Texas-based doctor licensed in Nova Scotia wrote 17,000 prescriptions for Ozempic over three months, but for people living in the United States.