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- 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
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
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. - 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
Take Black excellence all the way to the top
The goal here is not to admonish Canada’s most revered medical organizations, but rather to illustrate the historic and longstanding dearth of Black representation in Canadian medical leadership. Over the past few years, calls to address barriers to achieving diversity in the Canadian health workforce have been gaining momentum. Diversity exists along a broad spectrum that includes gender, socioeconomic, linguistic, and racial subsets, to mention a few. Acknowledging that there exist many populations that are also underrepresented in the highest echelons of Canadian medical leadership, this article speaks specifically to the paucity of Black Canadians in formal physician leadership roles while proposing four key recommendations for addressing this diversity gap. - 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. - 10/6/2020
Risk of cardiovascular events with SGLT2 inhibitors versus DPP-4 inhibitors
Canadian researchers compare the “real world” risk of cardiovascular events with SGLT2 inhibitors and DPP-4 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes.