Healthcare

All physician licensing authorities continue to state it is acceptable for physicians can keep records either on paper or electronically, notes health writer Pat Rich.

With Ontario pharmacists getting minor ailments prescribing in Ontario, Dr. Jabir Jassam has some questions.

Chau Vien Linh Ngo should have clarified the unfamiliar abbreviations with the prescribing physician. Instead she erroneously dispensed a double dose of antibiotics to a patient undergoing hemodialysis, according to the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec.

Allison Holthoff died New Year's Eve after she was taken to the emergency room at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Amherst, N.S.

As pharmacists we can’t live like students in an adult world. We need to invest in life structure because life as a pharmacist is longer than a four-year degree. In order to show up for our patients, staff and business while managing life and family, we need to last. We need to take care of ourselves so that we can take care of others.

Initial reports about the outage sparked concerns about a possible cybersecurity breach after Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children suffered a ransomware attack last month.

Some antidepressants appear to be more linked to withdrawal syndrome than others. 

Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph dubbed the latest subvariant Kraken, the name of a Scandinavian mythological sea creature.