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The Ontario College of Pharmacists survey comes amid media stories of pharmacies imposing quotas on clinical services and a pledge by the Ontario government to probe possible MedsCheck program abuses.

Agreement sees a rise in compensation and also promises “expedited arbitration” for the first year of the next PSA.

There are important details yet to be revealed, but Dr. Parks said he is pleased with about certain key commitments after speaking with Health Minister Adriana LaGrange.

Dr. Tom Elliott, medical director of a diabetes clinic in Vancouver, said one of his patients was hospitalized last year because he could not afford to buy medication after paying for groceries.

The first step is to negotiate universal coverage for birth control and diabetes drugs with provinces and territories—something Health Minister Mark Holland says he’s fairly certain he can accomplish by the next election.

'This is a proof-of-concept opportunity to try (providing) two drugs on a universal, single-payer model,' says federal Health Minister Mark Holland.

Among young people with depression, 80% report late-night sleep patterns. Researchers at UC San Francisco compared transdiagnostic sleep and circadian intervention against psychoeducation focused on healthy lifestyle.

Norma Adas-Ataya. who gave an infant double the prescribed dose of antibiotics, should have rechecked her work, said the discipline council of the Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec.