Medication Management

Despite growing awareness of high-risk dispensing practices for opioids, a newly released data analysis from the Ontario College of Pharmacists (OCP) shows only slight improvements in opioid dispensing patterns across the province.

Three research projects lead by pharmacists got a $125,000 boost in overall funding as recipients of this year’s Innovation Fund grant from the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy (CFP).

The 2017 guideline to restrict opiate prescriptions has resulted in patients who feel degraded, discriminated against, shamed and even suicidal

A Quebec naturopath is not guilty of manslaughter or criminal negligence in the death of an elderly man, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

One doctor says newer generation H1 antihistamines—such as Reactine, Claritin and Aerius—are safer, more effective and work more quickly.

If we are to solve the ongoing problem of drug shortages, we need to think about how to become less reliant on international supply chains

Before the recall emergency room visits in the group studied averaged 0.11% per month but in the month following the recall, the rate jumped to 0.17%