Healthcare

Dr. Kenneth Rockwood was presented with the Ryman Prize Tuesday night by Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, in a virtual ceremony.

Ontario physician experts predict a difficult January for the healthcare system as the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant spreads.

Mednow notes its plans to continue to add more and more services to its platform.

An Ontario surgeon says: “We are disappointing our patients with issues beyond our control. We feel beat and discouraged and morally very much injured.”

Accidental duplicate ingestions by patients and healthcare professional errors are the most common unintentional errors.

While the findings released Tuesday are preliminary and have not been peer-reviewed, they line up with other early data about omicron's behavior, including that it seems to be more easily transmitted.

In this recorded webinar, held live Dec. 9, 2021, pharmacists Pavithra Ravi and Carlene Oleksyn provide a deeper understanding of why and how pharmacists can play a vital role in shingles vaccination.

Laurie Pelletier-Tremblay, who joined forces with disgraced pharmacy owner Jonathan-Yan Perreault to buy a Uniprix pharmacy, told the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec she didn't know she was doing anything illegal.