Patient Compliance

Every incoming script for a travel vaccine to a community pharmacy presents an opportunity to assess a patient’s preventable travel-related health risks.

On the surface, there are many compelling reasons for mandating pediatric vaccinations for in-school attendance. While children are far less likely to develop serious illness from COVID-19 than adults, the risk is nonetheless greater than for other vaccine preventable diseases for which there are school mandates in some provinces. 

Omicron, the Geneva-based World Health Organization says, has fueled more cases—90 million—in the world over the last 10 weeks than during all of 2020, the outbreak's first full year.

Although some pharmacists might question the role of upselling in pharmacy, it can not only improve their sales but also enhance their patient care.

The Canadian Press used Freedom of Information law to request copies of all written responses sent to Ford after he asked for input from health leaders on a potential mandatory vaccination policy for hospital workers in October.

Finance Minister Eric Girard had prepared a bill to tax Quebecers who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 without a medical reason, Legault said, but the legislation will not be tabled.

Patients with nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer should receive full doses of BCG.

New Brunswick is now allowing pharmacists to renew prescriptions at no charge to patients, for as long as they feel it is appropriate.