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  • UPDATED: Pharmacists: Your summer playlist is here!

    Now with even more tunes! All the tunes on this eclectic Spotify playlist were suggested by you—our readers. It’s a work in progress, so please feel free to suggest your favourites!
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  • Five tips for managing oral anticoagulation therapy in a community setting

    With point-of-care testing becoming more common in Canadian pharmacies, here are some tips to ensure the success of a community pharmacy-­based warfarin management service.
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  • Pharmacists and FOMO

    The Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is most recently linked to social media but I believe it can be applied to a wider spectrum in an effort to support pharmacy leaders in their everyday lives. FOMO is an anxiety that an exciting event is occurring without us, flushing our brains with a depressed mood.
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  • Are you a restrained pharmacist?

    Over the course of my career, I have become convinced that the lack of any formal, structured leadership training has been to the detriment of the profession of pharmacy. The lack of emphasis and equipping has produced far too many pharmacists who are risk averse and wait to see whether someone else has success before they will even consider trying something new. At the same time, the demand for care has never been greater or more complex.
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  • Smartening your lease logic, Part 2

    Here I will cover the Notices section, the Option to Renew, and the Relocation clause. Generally, once both parties have entered into a Banner Agreement and Lease, the next time those documents ever get pulled out of the filing cabinet are at term renewal, at time of sale, or when something has broken down in the relationship between the parties.
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  • Exposomics 101: Environmental impacts on health

    This emerging area of study looks at the totality of environmental exposures we encounter throughout our lifetime and how these interact with our genetics to influence our health.
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  • New online tool allows pharmacists and dietitians to search for drug-nutrition interactions

    The subscription-based website was launched last week and has information on more than 1,000 drugs.
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  • Dear Ministry of Health: Please stop funding MedsCheck

    Dr. Jabir Jassam has a dim view of the value of medication reviews done by pharmacists on the behalf of pharmacy owners.
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