Medication Management

Among young people with depression, 80% report late-night sleep patterns. Researchers at UC San Francisco compared transdiagnostic sleep and circadian intervention against psychoeducation focused on healthy lifestyle.

Norma Adas-Ataya. who gave an infant double the prescribed dose of antibiotics, should have rechecked her work, said the discipline council of the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec.

Bariatric surgery leads to better glycemic control, less diabetes medication use and higher rates of diabetes remission compared with medical/lifestyle intervention.

Complaint cites broader implications of dictating fees, which can lead to less choice and accessibility of healthcare for Canadians.

With the news of the first stages of a long-anticipated National Pharmacare program, pharmacists express concern that the plan is being developed without the input of the professionals who will be most affected by it.

We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Some expectation of time was set and not met. We overpromise and under-deliver. This leads to frustration for the people we serve. In the pharmacy, my default wait time I’d tell patients to fill a prescription was 10 minutes. When I was able to produce the prescription in six minutes, the patient was happy. If I took 12 minutes, the patient was unhappy.

What if you could control the way you felt by controlling the way you thought? Like a remote control for television, our negative thoughts take us to the shows playing in our heads. The good news: we can train our brains to better handle negative thoughts, so we end up watching the shows we want instead of being stuck in a bad movie, too deeply committed to walk away.