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- 1/9/2014
Peter MacKay defends medical marijuana
Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay has become the latest—and perhaps most unlikely—defender of medical marijuana. - 1/9/2014
U.S. independents want ballooning generic drug costs investigated
Pharmacist organization calls on Congress to look into alarming price hikes. - 1/9/2014
Sovaldi: first nucleotide polymerase inhibitor for chronic hepatitis C
New antiviral can be used as part of an all-oral regimen for certain types of chronic HCV infection. - 1/9/2014
Public healthcare can be fixed – without large doses of taxpayer dollars
Chronic disease is long-term and requires care best delivered in the community by a multidisciplinary partnership, rather than a provider-to-provider handoff. Do we need to introduce a parallel private system to cope with this development? - 1/8/2014
Alberta government restricts supply of flu vaccines to AHS clinics
Pharmacies, doctors’ offices will no longer receive flu vaccine supplies. - 1/8/2014
Blood-soaked C. diff video stuns Quebecers
QUEBEC | A short, blood-soaked video by a Quebec actor who lost his mother to C.difficile is raising awareness about the human toll that the bacterium continues to extract in hospitals across la belle province. - 1/8/2014
Canada fares better than the U.S. on value for healthcare dollars, but lags behind other developed nations
Canadians live longer than people in the United States. Specifically, women in Canada live an average of 83 years, compared with 80 in the United States; men live more than 78 years on average compared with 75 in the United States. Why is this the case? There are clear links between mortality rates and the way countries invest in healthcare and improving social conditions. - 1/8/2014
Newfoundland pharmacists step up in weather crisis
Profession steps up by providing emergency extensions, delivering medications to seniors stuck inside, or opening their doors as warming centres. - 1/8/2014
SDI Canada buys SDI U.S.A.
Montreal firm specializing in MRI shielding solutions to expand to numerous new global healthcare markets