Pharmacy Business

With social media firmly established as a viable online marketing opportunity, how can you use technology to promote your pharmacy and its products and services? First of all, you don’t have to leave it to the big boys with the big budgets.

We know that emotional decisions rarely end being up the right ones. When this happens, great leaders have the ability to zoom out, resist the urge to be swept away by the details and focus on the overall broader situation.

Jaris Swidrovich, an assistant professor and Indigenous Engagement Lead at the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, has received a CIHR Catalyst Grant grant to research the barriers urban Indigenous Peoples face to PrEP.

A recent cluster of pre-pouring incidents shows its dangers, ISMP Canada says.

It provides evidence-based information to inform and educate healthcare professionals on the regulation and scientific basis for the authorization of biosimilars by Health Canada.

The idea is a bid to end the woes of patients throughout the country who are often told they need a specific medicine—but the hospital in question doesn’t have it.

The College of Pharmacists of British Columbia has reviewed the rules, including receiving prescriptions by email and text, getting them faxed from other pharmacists, and accepting photocopies.

The Ontario College of Pharmacists' guidance shares the rules around compounding semaglutide preparations, communicating with prescribers and patients, and what's allowed when promoting the service.