Healthcare

Safety review could not confirm a link between the use of mesalazine (5-ASA) during pregnancy and birth defects in babies.

Family medicine is in a state of crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic which, eight months in, has totally disrupted primary care physicians’ ability to provide face-to-face, quality care. Things are so bad that while governments are urging everyone to get a flu shot to avoid a “twindemic” many have expressed their confusion about finding out where to get that shot, just days away from the time when people typically start getting them.

The governments of Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario (for the greater Toronto area) are the latest to announce that pharmacies can get their vaccines through their private-sector pharmaceutical distributors

CPhA survey finds pharmacists are good candidates for addressing hesitancy, however barriers to effective communication exist.

Monte Steeves, owner of a Moncton, N.B., said pharmacists across the country are talking about best practices for everything from testing to vaccines at pharmacies right now, recognizing that different regions have different needs.

Health records from three Ontario hospitals—Women's College, St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton and Mackenzie Health in Richmond Hill—are the first to make this feature available to their patients as of Wednesday Oct. 7. Other health-care institutions across Canada that offer electronic records can sign on as well, according to Apple.