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- 8/8/2021
VIDEO: 10 ways to ace your job as a pharmacy technician
Here's a quick refresher on some of the most important steps you can take to ensure your skills and attitude are valued in your own workplace. - 8/8/2021
$2.6 million overpaid to physicians and pharmacists: RAMQ investigation
The RAMQ applies systematic control measures that target the all billing healthcare professionals or the entire billing of an agreement situation. - 8/8/2021
Kindness as a Quality Improvement Tool
We can admit, ourselves, that we’ve been feeling a bit burnt out, and perhaps slightly short in our tolerance department. - 8/5/2021
Bird is the word!
Here's the first entry in our Pharmacists' Favourite Photo contest. Send us your favourite photo to enter! - 8/5/2021
Ongoing study tests remote lung-health monitoring for COVID-19 patients recovering at home
Canadians who test positive for COVID-19 can enroll in the program and be sent Butterfly iQ+ at-home point-of-care lung ultrasound device. - 8/5/2021
Can beautiful VR experiences help patients endure painful procedures?
A urology study found that patients experienced fewer indicators of pain while watching and listening to an Icelandic waterfall. - 8/5/2021
Equity and diversity cannot be left to chance
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) wants to engage a diverse group of leaders to help shape our association and our future work. And so, we need to ensure our board and committees are made up of people from a broad range of communities and backgrounds. - 8/5/2021
Sudbury health unit setting up Hepatitis A vaccine clinics in response to warning about frozen mango products
A completely new vaccine push is on in Sudbury, but this time it is for a possible Hepatitis-A contamination linked to certain frozen mango products. - 8/4/2021
New cancer treatments can be tested in artificial cells on tiny chips the size of a postage stamp
Testing new drugs on human cells is expensive and complicated, so it is difficult to do early in the development of a drug. - 8/4/2021
Controversial Alzheimer’s drug highlights concerns about Health Canada approval process
I see people suffering from dementia almost every day when I’m working in the emergency department in downtown Toronto, and I’ve watched friends stripped of their lives by this disease.