Patient Compliance

The NDP confirmed on Friday that it reached a deal on pharmacare with the Liberals, which would allow every Canadian with a health card to access free diabetes medication and birth control.

‘Compared to an X-ray, an alpha particle is vastly more damaging to our DNA, generating mutations that drive our cells, in the lung, toward cancer.’

About 9,000 medical interns and residents have stayed off the job since early last week to protest a government plan to increase medical school admissions by about 65%.

The European iSIMPATHY project proves the value of a seven steps approach to medication reviews, enabling pharmacists to manage polypharmacy.

Offering services in Chinese proved so popular, owners opened second location.

We have vaccines and antibiotics, surgeries and nutritional diets, housing and protective institution—we just have to make them work together. 

'There’s very little medical judgment that goes into completing the forms—we’re mostly asking questions and collecting pieces of information. Yet family physicians spend over 10 hours per week on these forms, often unpaid and at the expense of patient care.'

The qualitative study, which looked at the data practices of commercial virtual care providers, found some companies used data analytics instead of physicians' recommendations to develop care pathways.