Healthcare

What would Shakespeare think of PPNs?
A patient is told by their insurer that they ca no longer have their medications covered unless they transfer their medications from their longtime diabetes educator/prescribing pharmacist to an out-of-province mail order pharmacy. What could possibly go wrong?
Some Ontario doctors can treat family members as regulatory college relaxes rules amid shortage
Doctors can’t prescribe narcotics to people close to them, except in an emergency.

What to prescribe to avoid a relapse of cannabis-related psychosis?

Injectable anti-psychotics offer better outcomes than oral equivalents.
Patients taking antidepressants experience more withdrawal symptoms if the drugs are taken over a longer period: study

Prolonged use of antidepressants increases the prevalence, severity and duration of withdrawal symptoms, U.K. cross-sectional survey shows.
How best to deprescribe benzodiazepines?

New guidance and meta-analysis both say there’s a lack of solid evidence for a specific ideal way.
Too restrictive? Some diets linked to increased depression

Men and those who are overweight at greater risk.
Risk of acute angle-closure glaucoma with antidepressants

UBC researchers compare the risk of acute angle-closure glaucoma with escitalopram and three other antidepressants.
Is there a right way to talk to your baby? A baby brain expert explains ‘parentese’

What’s going on when we chat like this to babies? And is it better to chat to them in the tone and pace we’d use when talking to other adults, or is it OK to talk in a slower, higher pitched, sing-song voice? Here’s what the research shows so far.
‘Trust is gone’ after lengthy Canadian Hearing Services strike, some deaf clients say

In early June, Jessica Sergeant waited five and a half hours for a sign language interpreter to arrive at her Ottawa hospital room while she had a cardiac emergency.
A refresher on prescribing antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent Lyme disease following a tick bite

As case numbers rise, Ontario pharmacists can follow algorithm to assess patients and prescribe doxycycline to prevent Lyme disease after a high-risk tick bite.

What would Shakespeare think of PPNs?

Some Ontario doctors can treat family members as regulatory college relaxes rules amid shortage

What to prescribe to avoid a relapse of cannabis-related psychosis?

Patients taking antidepressants experience more withdrawal symptoms if the drugs are taken over a longer period: study

How best to deprescribe benzodiazepines?

Too restrictive? Some diets linked to increased depression

Risk of acute angle-closure glaucoma with antidepressants

Is there a right way to talk to your baby? A baby brain expert explains ‘parentese’

‘Trust is gone’ after lengthy Canadian Hearing Services strike, some deaf clients say

A refresher on prescribing antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent Lyme disease following a tick bite