Practice Tips

A new tool, the CHILDhood Asthma Risk Tool, or CHART, helps providers determine the risk of childhood asthma. A study on its efficacy was published in JAMA, concluding it could be used as a routine screening tool in primary care. 

Among the ferns and foliage, Dr. Gary Kinney welcomes the aging process—including the liberation of logic.

Set to launch at the end of the year, the five-year project will waive certain practice readiness assessment requirements for eligible IMGs, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.

The Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy Professionals has posted a reminder of the rules for pharmacies that are compounding children’s pain medication.

Rossemarie Castro Rosales—who posed as 'Dr. Marie Milne'—may also have sexually assaulted some of the customers she 'treated,' according to Edmonton police.

Reusable contact lenses are nearly four times as likely as those who wear daily disposables to develop Acanthamoeba keratitis.

Three appellate court judges concluded the Newfoundland and Labrador Pharmacy Board had no legal right to conduct quality assurance assessments and no basis for punishing pharmacist Beverley Vey.

The International Pharmaceutical Federation has released two new resources for pharmacists.