ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 5/1/2017
Cape Breton pharmacist fired for making pot cookies for patient
A pharmacist in Cape Breton has been fired and temporarily stripped of her licence for baking marijuana cookies for a patient and packaging them in a prescription bag. - 4/30/2017
Psychedelic medicine goes underground
Some aren’t waiting for approval to use promising new therapies - 4/30/2017
Wait a Minute, Don’t Discredit Cannabis
I want to start by saying that I strongly feel that pharmacists can have a crucial role in the distribution of cannabis to Canadians. I did not come to this decision lightly, but through the hundreds of hours researching cannabis for patients commonly seen in pharmacy practice. - 4/30/2017
Alternate-day fasting no better than daily calorie restriction
Randomized trial casts doubt on popular dieting trend - 4/30/2017
Denmark found innovative way to cut overprescribing of benzos, CADTH Symposium hears
It’s one thing to produce evidence showing a medication is over-prescribed; it’s an entirely different, more complex and sometimes surprising task to actually reduce the use of that medication in the real world. - 4/30/2017
Press review – May 1, 2017
- 4/30/2017
Meet the doctor who—really—knows how his patients feel
Discussed: the mechanisms behind mirror-touch synesthesia, a doctor who was shot by his patient, the diagnostic value of emotion