Patient Lifestyle

The rapidly expanding scope of pharmacists continues to provide new opportunities for pharmacy teams to deliver accessible and timely care for Canadians. One area where our role is quickly changing is in the prescribing of contraceptives, where pharmacy scope has gradually expanded to several provinces.

If you've taken an accredited program for pharmacists in the last 10 years, there's a chance Michael Boivin created it.

Krista Reid’s son has been at the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in Saskatoon for more than a week dealing with stomach problems that she says doctors are unable to diagnose.

John Scully has been living with a major depressive disorder diagnosis for four decades, and despite trying nearly every treatment known to medicine, from shock therapy to trans-magnetic stimulation, his condition has not improved.

Another factor explaining individual responses to influenza and hepatitis vaccines.

Intranasal spray contains an antihistamine and a corticosteroid for twice-daily use in persons six years of age or older.

Drinking one or two glasses of alcohol a day could prevent dementia while drinking three or more could increase risk, study shows.

Ontario endocrinologist Dr. Elika Safar Zadeh also threatened to jeopardize the patient’s child custody status by filing a lawsuit for harassment and defamation, according to the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal.