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- 10/4/2022
Improve Medication Adherence Through Medication Packaging
Help improve your patients' health and reduce healthcare system costs by delivering medications in blister cards: the packaging that improves medication adherence rate by 61% to 96%. To help you offer this service, find the SynMed solution that fits your needs! - 10/4/2022
P.E.I. to implement Medication Incident Reporting
All community pharmacies to start reporting medication incidents/near misses by January 31, 2023. - 10/4/2022
Newfoundland and Labrador offering expat doctors $100,000 to come home to practise
Nurses and paramedics meeting the same criteria will qualify for a payment of at least $50,000 if they commit to working in the province for at least three years. - 10/3/2022
Health Canada approves Keytruda for the treatment of certain melanomas
Anti-PD-1 therapy is currently indicated for adults and children 12 years of age and older. - 10/3/2022
RBC acquires medical billing firm MDBilling.ca, financial terms not disclosed
MDBilling.ca services physicians in Ontario and British Columbia. - 10/3/2022
Prostate cancer: a new treatment approved by Health Canada
The new treatment is indicated for men who have previously received at least one androgen receptor signaling pathway inhibitor and taxane-based chemotherapy. - 10/3/2022
More MRI, CT scans being completed than before pandemic: Alberta Health Services
The province says it is spending an extra $11 million this year to reduce wait times for scans, on top of a $33-million increase from last year. - 10/3/2022
Case report: Could it be ringworm?
The family of a patient brought their 16-year-old daughter to our walk-in clinic yesterday, seeking treatment for her 'ringworm.' - 10/3/2022
ParticipAction gives kids and youth a D for activity, F for screen time
The report's 15th edition is based on data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, when play dates, sports activities and gym classes ground to a sudden halt for many kids.