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- 11/9/2020
Made-in-Canada test strips could enable COVID-19 testing in pharmacies
New made-in-Canada test strips used to identify SARS-CoV-2 will allow rapid point-of-care RT-PCR testing in remote locations, workplace settings or pharmacies. The test strips are thermostable, meaning they don’t need refrigeration or cold-chain storage during transportation. - 11/9/2020
Are school outbreaks a cause or result of COVID-19's second wave?
With the second wave of COVID-19 in full swing, did the return to class for Canadian students help cause it or are cases rising in schools because of the second wave itself? - 11/9/2020
CPhA webinar gets real on the pandemic’s impact on women in pharmacy
While focused on pharmacy, the panelists' stories about working at home with small children, taking care of aging parents, facing marriage breakdown, changing careers, keeping a business going and managing anxiety, depression and burnout during the pandemic could apply to women of any profession. - 11/9/2020
Medicago reports promising early Phase 1 test results of possible COVID-19 vaccine
Based on the Phase 1 data, Medicago plans to proceed with a Phase 2/3 clinical trial for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, subject to regulatory approval. - 11/9/2020
Nova Scotia adds coverage for breast reduction services for non-binary people
Effective Nov. 2, 2020, the diagnosis of persistent and well-documented gender dysphoria is included in the list of criteria for MSI coverage for breast reduction. - 11/9/2020
Alberta doctor moving to B.C. to get away from 'toxic' environment
Dr. Lauralee Dukeshire said her choice is entirely based on the actions of Alberta's government which have created a “hostile, toxic and unstable work environment for physicians.” - 11/8/2020
Learning medicine between worlds
I think about certain patients, displaced from the certainties of their lives in their home countries. They have, for complicated reasons, chosen to leave the world they grew up in to make a new life in Canada. The dominant culture here is so foreign, so strange to them. Some are ready to embrace it and go forward, and some are stuck and cannot adjust. - 11/8/2020
Diabetes Canada pushes for provincial governments to fund continuous glucose monitoring devices
New technologies like continuous glucose monitoring are one way to keep diabetes patients from needing to be physically present with their physicians to manage their health, said Dr. Jeremy Gilbert, an endocrinologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. - 11/8/2020
Deferring CPP and OAS not a cut-and-dried case for doctors
If you have recently retired and are in your mid-60s, you have a choice to make. Do you take your government pension entitlements, or defer them to a later date in order to receive a higher amount?