Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

This comes after the family of a man who died waiting in the ER launched a lawsuit against the health authority and two nurses.

Currently there are no regulations around PPNs in Ontario—so the Ministry of Finance is asking stakeholders what they think, during a 60-day public consultation.

Among the CMA’s draft recommendations include calling on governments to clamp down on user fees to access primary care and restricting or eliminating ‘duplicative insurance models.’

With the recent release of the NACI statement on RSV prevention for infants, we asked Dr. Ian Mitchell and Dr. John Yaremko to provide a quick update for primary care clinicians on preventing RSV disease in infants.

Health Canada has ruled that as of this week, nicotine pouches (Zonnic) will only be allowed to be sold from behind the pharmacy counter. Similar to Schedule II drugs, only a pharmacist or a dispensary staff supervised by a pharmacist may sell the pouches.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones cited increased crime and concerns from neighbours and parents about problems near those sites.

New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, shipped steroids for pain relief to clinics across the country. Investigators said the lab was rife with mold, insects and cracks.

‘Nicotine pouch flavours like berry frost or tropical breeze are not going to be allowed to be sold anywhere. They’ll be recalled.’