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- 2/19/2018
CPSA urging responsible opioid prescribing
Several initiatives are under way in Alberta to fight the opioid crisis and the CPSA is leading several of them - 2/19/2018
Viibryd: new antidepressant launches in Canada
Vilazodone acts as a serotonin reuptake inhibitor and a partial agonist at 5-HT1A receptors - 2/18/2018
Alberta's nurses agree to wage freeze and job security in new contract
The agreement covers about 28,000 registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses. The three-year agreement will run retroactive from April 2017 to March 31, 2020, and includes a wage re-opening provision in the third year. - 2/18/2018
Dr. Lesley Barron interviews CMA presidential hopeful Dr. Sandy Buchman
We connected for a brief interview where he commented on the remarkable collegiality between himself and the other three candidates over the last few weeks of campaigning for the CMA presidency. - 2/18/2018
Kenora doctors close family health clinic after struggling for five years
They had originally envisioned the clinic as a nexus of family health services in the city, but that goal was never fully realized - 2/18/2018
B.C. mom whose two sons overdosed urges doctors to check prescription history
Helen Jennens says the deaths of her sons, Rian Leinweber in August 2011 and Tyler Leinweber in January 2016, could have been prevented if doctors had checked their drug histories on B.C.'s unique real-time database PharmaNet.