The college launched its corporate pressures hotline last summer after surveys and town halls revealed many pharmacists were facing pressure from their employers to reach service quotas or other business targets.
Birch Hill acquired the drugstore chain from previous owner McKesson Corp. in a transaction that closed Dec. 30, according to documents filed with the federal Competition Tribunal.
A letter sent to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine signed by Canadian health officials says the British Columbia teenager who tested positive for avian flu has been taken off of supplemental oxygen and is no longer infectious.
Canada’s only confirmed H5N1 patient—a teen in B.C.—was severely ill and hospitalized in November. Health officials there have still not been able to determine how the teen got infected.
The death of an Oregon house cat and a pet food recall are raising questions about the ongoing outbreak of bird flu and how people can protect their pets.
