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By increasing investment in public health today, we can decrease ‘curative care’ investment in the future, and simultaneously improve the health of the population.

The agreement will affect 1,900 healthcare workers, including pharmacists who work for regional health authorities.

Choosing Wisely Canada and Canada’s Drug Agency have released guidance on how five commonly used lab tests—antinuclear antibody, hemoglobin A1C, lipase, serum protein electrophoresis and thyroid-stimulating hormone—should be spaced out.

At a meeting, the Ontario College of Pharmacists approved the statement that rebukes closed preferred-provider networks (PPNs) and payer-directed care. They also discussed the rise of vertical integration, when groups like Telus or the Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan own their preferred pharmacies.

More than 2,400 patients at hospitals around Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV, because of an anesthesiologist who may not have followed infection control practices, officials said.

A Massachusetts man has regained his voice after surgeons removed his cancerous larynx and, in a pioneering move, replaced it with a donated one.

B.C.’s provincial health officer recommends the province expand its ‘safer supply’ program to prevent overdoses, including allowing access to alternatives to unregulated drugs without a prescription.

Apparently, no single entity knows the real number and the feds are spending big bucks to create the infrastructure needed to keep track.