Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

The Saskatchewan government has joined all but two other provinces in banning the sale of tobacco and tobacco-related products in pharmacies and retail-store pharmacies.

Tackling drug shortages, promotes renewed role for feds in health care.

Practice likened to moving a psychiatrist to a different unit and asking him or her to perform cardiac surgery.

Though not part of their long anticipated expanded scope of practice, pharmacists practicing in community pharmacies in Ontario can now refill existing prescriptions under specific conditions without further authorization from a prescriber.

CPhA Urges Political Parties, Pharmacists, to Talk Health Care in Election 2011.

Alberta’s doctors have endorsed a framework for achieving a three-year master agreement, an “agreement in principle” that avoids the demise of nine key programs and benefits but includes a two-year wage freeze.