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- 2/11/2019
Family doctors can no longer earn CME credits for pharma-sponsored dinners
This comes as a result of a review aimed at curbing industry influence in continuing medical education - 2/11/2019
What the future of pharmacy looks like
Team of practice researchers set out what needs to happen—and why— for profession to evolve to meet the needs of patients. - 2/10/2019
Position statement on medical cannabis use in rheumatic disease
Canadian Rheumatology Association provides guidance to ensure empathetic care and harm reduction - 2/10/2019
The challenge of the super agency
Is there any reason to believe that Ontario's proposed single bureaucratic healthcare body will work any better than it did in the other provinces that have already tried it? - 2/10/2019
NB psychiatric hospital patient dies days after report finding inadequate care
A patient died unexpectedly at a psychiatric hospital in Campbellton, N.B., this weekend, two days after the province's ombudsman released a report probing complaints of mistreatment at the centre. - 2/10/2019
Alberta creates working group to make recommendations to ban conversion therapy
The Alberta government has created a working group to determine the most effective way to ban conversion therapy. - 2/10/2019
Shining a light on osteoporosis
Osteoporosis Canada has teamed up with Canadian fashion designer David Dixon to put osteoporosis in the limelight, especially among a younger demographic. - 2/10/2019
Tax breaks could soften the blow of a national pharmacare plan
Tax breaks or exemptions for those working in pharmacy, health insurance and pharmaceutical industries could help bolster support for a national pharmacare plan - 2/10/2019
Managing young women at high risk of heart disease
Deaths from heart disease have decreased in recent decades, but these decreases have not occurred in women younger than 50.