CPhA Update: Winter/Spring 2011Tackling drug shortages, promotes renewed role for feds in health care. Spotlight: Shera HansonFrom medical missions abroad to her work in palliative care, this pharmacist from Charlottetown has a passion for people. The end of preceptors? Financial pressures leave hospital, community pharmacy looking at alternatives. Ontario implements first phase of paid expanded services First phase pays pharmacists for pharmaceutical opinion given for patient covered under ODB program. Drug News: April/May 2011 Biacna topical gel for acne; Prevegyne for bacterial vaginosis; Vimovo: first NSAID–PPI combo; Zenhale for asthma. Saskatchewan pharmacies pull tobacco 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. Environmental Issues: What’s in our blood? …Mercury Although Canada has reduced domestic mercury releases significantly, emissions from other countries are increasing. ONA calls for end to hospitals wasting healthcare dollars on litigation Practice likened to moving a psychiatrist to a different unit and asking him or her to perform cardiac surgery. Pharmacist prescribing rolls out in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia pharmacists are adjusting to their new prescribing responsibilities now that roll-out of the new standards of practice is complete. Doctors join raucous call for health care reform The president of the Alberta Medical Association is recommending a grass-roots campaign to bring about massive changes to the medicare system. First Previous 2013 2014 2015
