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• 1/30/2023

  Alberta NDP health critic takes aim at UCP decision to contract out surgeries

  Health Minister Jason Copping announced last week a contract with Canadian Surgery Solutions to provide 3,000 orthopedic surgeries.
• 1/30/2023

  Health Canada conducts safety review on breastfeeding drug amid psychiatric concerns

  Domperidone is approved in Canada for gastrointestinal symptoms but is frequently prescribed off-label to increase breastmilk supply.
• 1/30/2023

  ‘Dangerous’ to think B.C.’s decriminalization plan will reduce OD deaths: researcher

  Users will not be arrested or have their drugs seized by police starting Tuesday in what is a three-year pilot project.
• 1/30/2023

  Doctor gets nearly 17 years in prison for vast opioid scheme

  Dr. Frank Patino’s fraud lasted years and was one of the most egregious healthcare schemes in U.S. history, prosecutors said.
• 1/30/2023

  Pharmacy U presenters Pavithra Ravinatarajan and Siva Sivapalan: The pharmacist’s role with GLP-1s in the treatment of diabetes

  Diabetes is a condition that impacts over 3 million Canadians. That is approximately 8.8% of the population, further, it is estimated that 6.1% of the Canadian adult population are at high risk of developing diabetes.
• 1/29/2023

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith opposes assisted dying expansion as Ottawa eyes delay

  An update to assisted-dying law passed in 2021 included a two-year sunset clause that would see the expansion take effect this March.
• 1/29/2023

  Ontario hospital nurses start contract talks, plan 'escalating actions'

  The nurses, and other broader public sector workers, have been subject for three years to a wage restraint law known as Bill 124, which capped increases at 1% a year.
• 1/29/2023

  Doctors say surgical training, delayed by the pandemic, continues to be affected

  Far from looking forward to entering the workforce, some newly graduated surgeons say they are worried and frustrated about backlogs that have put operations on hold.
• 1/29/2023

  What to know about B.C. decriminalizing possession of drugs for personal use

  The pilot project will continue until Jan. 31, 2026, after a federal exemption from the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
• 1/29/2023

  Ontario launches fee code for treating patients with long COVID

  In a bulletin to all physicians a few days prior, the Ministry of Health said long COVID “has emerged as a complex and multisystem disease that is anticipated to require multidisciplinary management and treatment across the continuum of care.”