Medication Management

A message from the OPA's chair of the board on funding for minor ailment assessments in Ontario.

The Ontario College is set to develop a standard for the requirement, which will be presented at the next board meeting in March 2023 and will come into effect immediately after approval.

Icosapent ethyl should be considered for this high-risk population.

Dr. Syed Naqvi has been ordered to pay $30,000 in investigation and hearing costs by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Prince Edward Island.

Canadian researchers recently developed the Antidepressant Decision Support Tool to assist primary care practitioners in individualizing first-line pharmacotherapy for major depressive disorder.

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Pharmacists are about to start minor ailments prescribing Jan. 1 in Ontario but are they diagnosticians? What unintended consequences might we see?

Demand for semaglutide spiked after Musk tweeted that Wegovy helped him lose weight. That's a problem for patients with Type 2 diabetes or obesity who can't fill their prescriptions.