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Athana Mentzelopoulos is suing the province for wrongful dismissal, saying she was fired in January for looking into the overpays on contracts with private surgical providers.

Governments have cut payments for some virtual care since the pandemic but that isn’t equitable access, argues health policy analyst Will Falk.

The plan will support nearly 550,000 B.C. residents with diabetes and provide 1.3 million people with a range of contraceptives.

The federal government ran 33 such hospitals between 1936 and 1981. Former patients, some of whom spent years in the segregated facilities, filed a lawsuit against the government in 2018 alleging the hospitals were rife with abuse and unfair treatment.

The U.S. FDA has said compounding pharmacies and other entities that have been allowed to make off-brand, cheaper copies of the drugs during the shortage will have to wind down production.

The RxVigilance tool contains more than 1,600 drug monographs and 115,000 commercial products, as well as prescribing and pharmacotherapeutic analysis tools.

No matter how you crunch the numbers, there are more family medicine residency spots to be matched with in Canada in 2025.

Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada is celebrating 30 years of this annual meeting of leaders from across the pharmacy industry spectrum.