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Alberta pharmacists: How are you bearing up?
With government budget cuts and PrescribeIT's new fee—we want to hear how your practice is doing and what changes you may be having to make.
Overdose deaths in Ontario increasingly involve more than one drug, new report says
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, attributing deaths to two or more substances rather than just one drug has become more common, new research from the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network and Public Health Ontario shows.

Doctors: how to get a literary agent

Three doctor-authors with book deals talk getting published
Fewer than 1 in 1,000 U.S. adolescents receive gender-affirming medications, researchers find

Only U.S. 926 adolescents with a gender-related diagnosis received puberty blockers from 2018 through 2022.
Health officials report a death in a Winnipeg hospital emergency department

The emergency room was busy at the time, but not at an abnormal level, Dr. Shawn Young, the hospital’s chief operating officer, said.
OCP issues RFP for external governance review to tackle board disfunction

In September, the college approved a motion to initiate an external third-party governance review over an increase in ‘behaviours indicative of board discord and a breakdown of trust.’
A winding journey from pharmacist to family physician

In her career as a pharmacist, Pauwlina Cyca felt she was affecting a lot of people's lives in a positive way. ‘That's part of what drove me to family medicine in the first place.’
B.C. doctors comparing H5N1 virus that infected teen with that of Louisiana patient

The analysis is intended ro help to assess how easily the virus adapts and transmits between animals and humans.
As walking pneumonia rates drop among Canadian children, flu and RSV are back

Dr. Kirstin Weerdenburg, a pediatric emergency physician at Halifax’s IWK Health Centre, says she’s diagnosed more walking pneumonia cases in the past six months than she has in her more than 15-year career.
Webinar offers opportunity to exchange medication safety incidents with colleagues

The hour-long webinar, set to take place on Jan. 29 at 12 p.m. ET, will provide the opportunity for physicians and pharmacists to share and discuss incident reports, trends and emerging issues in medication safety.