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- 10/8/2020
Toronto hospital network says info of about 150 patients allegedly stolen
St. Michael's Hospital says it is conducting its own investigation and has also reported the matter to Ontario's privacy commissioner. - 10/7/2020
More provinces permit pharmacies to use private distributors for flu vaccine deliveries
The governments of Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario (for the greater Toronto area) are the latest to announce that pharmacies can get their vaccines through their private-sector pharmaceutical distributors - 10/7/2020
FPs as frazzled as their patients during pandemic
Family medicine is in a state of crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic which, eight months in, has totally disrupted primary care physicians’ ability to provide face-to-face, quality care. Things are so bad that while governments are urging everyone to get a flu shot to avoid a “twindemic” many have expressed their confusion about finding out where to get that shot, just days away from the time when people typically start getting them. - 10/7/2020
New study on vaccine hesitancy in community pharmacists
CPhA survey finds pharmacists are good candidates for addressing hesitancy, however barriers to effective communication exist. - 10/7/2020
Healthcare professionals have a voice on social media, court rules
The decision noted that having focused solely on the critical portions of the nurse’s post, the discipline committee “failed to recognize that her comments were not only both critical and laudatory but were self-evidently intended to contribute to public awareness and public discourse." - 10/7/2020
Apple users can now access health records from three GTA hospitals through their iPhone
Health records from three Ontario hospitals—Women's College, St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton and Mackenzie Health in Richmond Hill—are the first to make this feature available to their patients as of Wednesday Oct. 7. Other health-care institutions across Canada that offer electronic records can sign on as well, according to Apple. - 10/7/2020
Quebec doctor calls on peers to confront systemic racism
Last week, Quebec's government ordered an inquiry into the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman from Manawan who recorded workers at the Centre hospitalier de Lanaudière in Joliette mocking her with sexist and racist abuse soon before she died. - 10/7/2020
Health Canada consultation shows various opinions on cannabis health products
Results from Health Canada’s consultation for feedback about sales, manufacturing and interest in buying cannabis health products (CHPs) shows support from consumers and industry for making the products over-the-counter (OTC) and available without additional practitioner oversight. - 10/7/2020
Health Canada examines safety of inflammatory bowel disease drug mesalazine in pregnancy
Safety review could not confirm a link between the use of mesalazine (5-ASA) during pregnancy and birth defects in babies.